Loading...
Loading...
39 illustrations across 2 categories
In June of 1752, on the outskirts of Philadelphia, a forty-six-year-old printer named Benjamin Franklin walked into a gathering thunderstorm carrying a silk kite, a...
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed a telescope he had built himself toward Jupiter from Padua, Italy. What he saw puzzled...
In June 1752, Benjamin Franklin and his son William walked to an open field on the outskirts of Philadelphia, carrying a silk kite fitted with...
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed his improved telescope toward Jupiter from his study in Padua, Italy. What he saw startled...