Among the many phenomena which engaged the scientific imagination of Benjamin Franklin (1773) is the fact that a drop of oil, if placed on water, spreads out to form a film too thin even to produce prismatic colors but capable still of smoothing the waves. The author, formerly a professor of phy
- ISBN10 0822308762
- ISBN13 9780822308768
- Publish Date 1 January 1989
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 13 July 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Duke University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 237
- Language English