Benjamin Franklin in Podcasts
personA historical figure who hypothesized about bioluminescence being caused by electricity and lightning in the ocean.
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That was Benjamin Franklin.
Josiah Franklin, Benjamin's father, occupied this middle tier with a kind of solid competence that history has largely overlooked in favour of his more famous son.
This is relevant to Franklin for reasons that will become clear later, but for now, file it under things that make his eventual invention of an improved heating stove feel less like intellectual curiosity and more like deeply personal motivation.
The winters of Franklin's childhood fell during what climatologists now call the Little Ice Age, a centuries-long period of cooling that made European and North American winters significantly colder than anything we experience today.
That is roughly the recipe for Franklin's worldview, and it starts here, in the streets of early 18th century Boston.
It is, in a very real sense, the intellectual environment that produced Benjamin Franklin.
By the time Franklin was born, this theocratic original vision was bumping up hard against the realities of commercial life.
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