 | David McCullough - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 883 pages
...Franklin's initial proposal were, in the spirit of the age, all-embracing: all philosophical [scientific] experiments that let light into the nature of things,...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasure of life . . . all new-discovered plants, herbs, trees, roots, and methods... | |
 | Stephen R. Bown - Natural history - 2002 - 284 pages
...natural world. The American Philosophical Society was founded in 1743 with the objective of pursuing "all Philosophical Experiments that let Light into...increase the power of Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniences or Pleasures of Life." The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was founded in... | |
 | Montserrat Ginés Gibert - Foreign Language Study - 2010 - 198 pages
...proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America. Intended to pursue "all philosophical Experiments that let light into...increase the Power of Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniences or Pleasures of Life," the proposed society would range from botany and mathematics to... | |
 | John W. O'Malley - History - 2004 - 284 pages
...useful. . . . All new Arts, Trades, Manufactures, etc., that may be proposed or thought of ... And all philosophical Experiments that let Light into...increase the Power of Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniences or Pleasures of Life."15 In 1780 the legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts... | |
 | Edwin S. Gaustad - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 145 pages
...and coasts, rivers and "great Roads." In short, Franklin sought to encourage a new society open to "all philosophical Experiments that let Light into...increase the Power of Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniences or Pleasures of Life." Franklin had himself, of course, taken early steps in multiplying... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 330 pages
...This organization, to be called "The Amerisan Philosophisal Soriety," would promote "all phi1osophical Experiments that let Light into the Nature of Things,...increase the Power of Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniences or Pleasures of life." He got the society on its feet, but at the outset it was not as... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 324 pages
...his old Junto. This organization, to be called "The American Philosophical Society," would promote "all philosophical Experiments that let Light into...increase the Power of Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniences or Pleasures of life." He got the society on its feet, but at the outset it was not as... | |
 | Philip A. Cusick - Education - 2005 - 194 pages
...individual scholar's knowledge but the general knowledge about "planting, gardening and clearing land; and all philosophical experiments that let light into...increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life" (Van Doren, 1938, p. 139). Appointing himself secretary of the organization,... | |
 | Rakesh Khurana - Business & Economics - 2010 - 542 pages
...cofounded the American Philosophical Society, which would later define its purpose as the pursuit of "all philosophical Experiments that let Light into...multiply the Conveniencies or Pleasures of Life"; while the avowed purpose of the establishment of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1780... | |
 | Lorraine Smith Pangle - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 300 pages
...include agriculture, medicine, geology, mathematics, chemistry, technology, manufactures, geography, "and all philosophical Experiments that let Light into...Matter, and multiply the Conveniencies or Pleasures of Life."42 Franklin's own studies in electricity are one example of what he is trying to encourage; his... | |
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... all philosophical experiments that let light into the nature of things, tend to increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life. 
