Comments on: Chaplin — The First Scientific American http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4431.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Thu, 24 May 2012 22:26:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Ginny http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4431.html/comment-page-1#comment-21869 Ginny Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:49:10 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004431.php#comment-21869 I thank you & my students thank you - Franklin comes up in about three hours & while I will still know nothing about science, at least I can point to your review & the book for those who want to know more. I love the Puritans but it is like throwing open the windows in the room when we get to Franklin. I thank you & my students thank you – Franklin comes up in about three hours & while I will still know nothing about science, at least I can point to your review & the book for those who want to know more.

I love the Puritans but it is like throwing open the windows in the room when we get to Franklin.

]]> By: John http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4431.html/comment-page-1#comment-21868 John Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:12:29 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004431.php#comment-21868 When I first glanced at the titel, I thought Chaplin was referring to Charlie. <i>That</i> warranted a second look. When I first glanced at the titel, I thought Chaplin was referring to Charlie. That warranted a second look.

]]> By: Jim Bennett http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4431.html/comment-page-1#comment-21867 Jim Bennett Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:16:13 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004431.php#comment-21867 A good companion to this book would be Jenny Uglow's <i>The Lunar Men</i>, which dealt with Franklin's comtemporaries, the Lunar Society in Lancashire, with whom Franklin visited and corresponded. Like Franklin, these people, including Josiah Wedgewood and Erasmus Darwin, (Charles's grandfather and forerunner), tended to combine entrepreneurship, radical politics, religious speculation, and science. A good companion to this book would be Jenny Uglow’s The Lunar Men, which dealt with Franklin’s comtemporaries, the Lunar Society in Lancashire, with whom Franklin visited and corresponded. Like Franklin, these people, including Josiah Wedgewood and Erasmus Darwin, (Charles’s grandfather and forerunner), tended to combine entrepreneurship, radical politics, religious speculation, and science.

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