 | Edward Carlos Carter - Philosophy - 1993 - 136 pages
...Introducing other Sorts from foreign Countries. New Improvements in Planting, Gardening, Clearing Land, &c. And all philosophical Experiments that let Light into...Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniences or Pleasure of Life. "The American Philosophical Society was organized on this plan in early 1744. It... | |
 | Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman - History - 1993 - 354 pages
...sense, is the answer to the human problem, worthy to be pursued through all methods and inventions that "let Light into the Nature of Things, tend to...and multiply the conveniences or Pleasures of Life." 10 6. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Philadelphia: JC Winston, 1925), p. 167; see also pp. 118-19.... | |
 | William G. Shade - History - 1998 - 314 pages
...metaphysical speculation and accented, even beyond the Europeanph'ilosophes, the quest for useful knowledge: "all philosophical Experiments that let Light into...of Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniences and Pleasures of Life."'' Jefferson remained president of the Society throughout his years in the White... | |
 | Peter McNamara - History - 1999 - 278 pages
...Society. The language is Baconian. He proposes a scientific establishment for "useful knowledge," that is, to "increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life."9 But Franklin's ingenious writings exhibit also the Baconian moral science of the self-made... | |
 | Lisa Rosner, John Theibault - History - 2000 - 478 pages
...to spread word about "all new arts, trades, and manufactures that may be proposed or thought of ... and all philosophical experiments that let light into...matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life."8 The society became a natural forum for correspondence among all philosophically minded people... | |
 | 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,...man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasure of life . . . all new-discovered plants, herbs, trees, roots, and methods of propagating them.... | |
 | Joseph A. Leo Lemay - History - 2001 - 494 pages
...turn its continental expanse and diversity of facts to good account, by making them the subject of "philosophical Experiments that let Light into the...increase the Power of Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniencies or Pleasures of Life." Arguing from geography, Franklin suggested that meetings should... | |
 | 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...multiply the Conveniences or Pleasures of Life." The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was founded in 1812 "for the encouragement and cultivation... | |
 | 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...multiply the Conveniences or Pleasures of Life," the proposed society would range from botany and mathematics to labor-saving inventions and manufactures.... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 607 pages
...manufactures . . . surveys, maps and charts . . . methods of improving the breeds of animals . . . and all philosophical experiments that let light into the nature of things." Franklin volunteered to serve as secretary. By the spring of 1744 the society began meeting regularly.... | |
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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. 
