Bendžamin Frenklin

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Bendžamin Frenklin
Bendžamin Frenklin
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Datum rođenja(1706-01-17)17. januar 1706.
Mesto rođenjaBoston, Britanska Amerika
Datum smrti17. april 1790.(1790-04-17) (84 god.)
Mesto smrtiFiladelfija, SAD

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Bendžamin Frenklin (engl. Benjamin Franklin; Boston, 17. januar 1706[1]Filadelfija, 17. april 1790) je bio američki naučnik i političar, borac za slobodu čoveka, učesnik u Američkom ratu za nezavisnost, jedan od tvoraca „Deklaracije o nezavisnosti“ i američkog ustava, plodan pisac, štampar i pronalazač.[2] Rođen je u Bostonu, država Masačusets. Kao naučnik poznat je kao izumitelj gromobrana i otkrića toka i karakteristika Golfske struje. Pored gromobrana pronašao je Franklinovu peć, bifokalne naočari i napravio je prvu mašinu za umnožavanje. Prvi je uveo ulično osvetljenje i reorganizovao je američki poštanski sistem.[3] Njegov najpoznatiji naučni rad, vezan je za elektricitet. Razvio je model električne struje kao fluida shvatajući da je ona u stvari kretanje naelektrisanih čestica. Osnovao je prvu javnu biblioteku u Americi, filozofsko društvo Pensilvanije i „Akademiju“ koja je prerasla u Univerzitet Pensilvanije.[4] Za njega se vezuje i čuveni eksperiment sa puštanjem zmaja. Tada je dokazao da je grom jedna vrsta električne varnice.

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Reference[uredi | uredi izvor]

  1. ^ Engber, Daniel (2006). „What's Benjamin Franklin's Birthday?”. Slate. Pristupljeno 17. 6. 2009. „according to documents from Boston's city registrar, he actually came into the world on the old-style Jan. 6, 1705. So, this year's tricentennial is right on time. 
  2. ^ „Inventor”. The Franklin Institute. Arhivirano iz originala 5. 03. 2007. g. Pristupljeno 25. 4. 2012. 
  3. ^ Burt, Nathaniel (1999). The Perennial Philadelphians: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy. University of Pennsylvania Press. str. 142. ISBN 978-0-8122-1693-6. 
  4. ^ Isaacson, Walter (2003). Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780684807614. 

Literatura[uredi | uredi izvor]

Biografije

Za mlade čitaoce

  • Asimov, Isaac. The Kite That Won the Revolution, a biography for children that focuses on Franklin's scientific and diplomatic contributions.
  • Fleming, Candace. Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life.. Atheneum/Anne Schwart, 128 pp. 2003. ISBN 978-0-689-83549-0..

Naučna istraživanja

  • Anderson, Douglas. The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin (1997) – fresh look at the intellectual roots of Franklin
  • Buxbaum, M.H., ed. Critical Essays on Benjamin Franklin (1987)
  • Chaplin, Joyce. The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius. (2007)
  • Cohen, I. Bernard. Benjamin Franklin's Science (1990) – Cohen, the leading specialist, has several books on Franklin's science
  • Conner, Paul W. Poor Richard's Politicks (1965) – analyzes Franklin's ideas in terms of the Enlightenment and republicanism
  • Dull, Jonathan. Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution (2010)
  • Dull, Jonathan. A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution (1985)
  • Dray, Philip. Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America. (2005). 279 pp.
  • Ford, Paul Leicester. The Many-Sided Franklin (1899) online edition – collection of scholarly essays
  • Gleason, Philip. "Trouble in the Colonial Melting Pot." Journal of American Ethnic History 2000 20(1): 3–17.
  • Houston, Alan. Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement (2009)
  • Lemay, J.A. Leo, ed. Reappraising Benjamin Franklin: A Bicentennial Perspective (1993) – scholarly essays
  • Mathews, L.K. "Benjamin Franklin's Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750–1775." American Political Science Review 8 (August 1914): 393–412.
  • McCoy, Drew R. (1978). „Benjamin Franklin's Vision of a Republican Political Economy for America”. William and Mary Quarterly. 35 (4): 607—28. JSTOR 1923207. doi:10.2307/1923207. 
  • Merli, Frank J., and Theodore A. Wilson, eds. Makers of American diplomacy, from Benjamin Franklin to Henry Kissinger (1974) online free
  • Newman, Simon P. "Benjamin Franklin and the Leather-Apron Men: The Politics of Class in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia", Journal of American Studies, August 2009, Vol. 43#2 pp. 161–75; Franklin took pride in his working class origins and his printer's skills.
  • Olson, Lester C. Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology. (2004). 323 pp.
  • Schiffer, Michael Brian. Draw the Lightning Down: Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment. (2003). 383 pp.
  • Stuart Sherman "Franklin" 1918 article on Franklin's writings.
  • Skemp, Sheila L. Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist (1994) – Ben's son was a leading Loyalist
  • Sletcher, Michael. 'Domesticity: The Human Side of Benjamin Franklin', Magazine of History, XXI (2006).
  • Waldstreicher, David. Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution. Hill and Wang, 2004. 315 pp.
  • Walters, Kerry S. Benjamin Franklin and His Gods. (1999). 213 pp. Takes position midway between D H Lawrence's brutal 1930 denunciation of Franklin's religion as nothing more than a bourgeois commercialism tricked out in shallow utilitarian moralisms and Owen Aldridge's sympathetic 1967 treatment of the dynamism and protean character of Franklin's "polytheistic" religion.
  • York, Neil. "When Words Fail: William Pitt, Benjamin Franklin and the Imperial Crisis of 1766", Parliamentary History, October 2009, Vol. 28#3 pp. 341–74

Istoriografija

  • Waldstreicher, David, ed. A Companion to Benjamin Franklin (2011), 25 essays by scholars emphasizing how historians have handled Franklin. online edition Arhivirano na sajtu Wayback Machine (20. октобар 2017)

Примарни извори

Spoljašnje veze[uredi | uredi izvor]

Biografije i vodiči

Onlajn spisi

Autobiografija

U umetnosti

Spoljašnji video-zapis
Presentation by H.W. Brands on The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, October 5, 2000, C-SPAN
Presentation by Walter Isaacson on Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, July 22, 2003, C-SPAN
Presentation by Edmund S. Morgan on Benjamin Franklin, November 12, 2002, [lC-SPAN
Presentation by Stacy Schiff on A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, April 12, 2005, C-SPAN
Booknotes interview with James Srodes on Franklin: The Essential Founding Father, May 19, 2002, C-SPAN
Interview with Gordon S. Wood on The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, June 4, 2004, C-SPAN video7 = Panel discussion on Franklin with Walter Isaacson, Gordon Wood, and Stacy Schiff, hosted by Jim Lehrer, January 8, 2006, C-SPAN