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Photographs from my visit to the Vaughan Homestead in June, 2015.

Photographs of the Vaughan Homestead when I visited in June 2015.

Portrait of Benjamin Vaughan

Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée. Tome II.

This portrait of Benjamin Franklin highlights his study of ”useful knowledge.” Franklin is surrounded with books, papers and a bust of Sir Isaac Newton, linking Franklin to a distinguished tradition of natural philosophers. While Franklin’s right…

In English and French. Third Edition. Embellished with a fine Engraving, and an Allegorical Map.

Joseph Priestley was an outspoken minister and one of the founders of rational Unitarianism. He was also a renowned natural philosopher, who is perhaps most famous for discovering oxygen. He developed innovative teaching methods at Warrington…