ON PLATE TECTONICS, OLD BEN GOT IT RIGHT 200 YEARS AGO

The Boston Globe | September 13, 1993| | Copyright

Benjamin Franklin is usually depicted as a grandfatherly fellow, portly and genial, who would be at home by the fire of an 18th- century tavern, with a long-stemmed pipe in one hand and a tankard of porter in the other. In the familiar portrait of Franklin by his contemporary Edward Fisher, the great man seems fixed to his chair by a kind of weary contentment.

We tend to think of Franklin as a tinkerer and dabbler, occupations befitting a man in repose: inventor of bifocals and the Franklin stove, and quaint aphorist of Poor Richard's Almanack.

In fact, the man behind the popular iconography ...

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