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Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Sunday, November 25 2012 @ 05:36 AM EST |
He may well have been the first, as he wrote:
"And yet I know there
are little, envious minds, who will, as usual, deny me this and say, that my
invention was known to the ancients, and perhaps they may bring passages out of
the old books in proof of it. I will not dispute with these people, that the
ancients knew not the sun would rise at certain hours; they possibly had, as we
have, almanacs that predicted it; but it does not follow thence, that they knew
he gave light as soon as he rose. This is what I claim as my discovery. If the
ancients knew it, it might have been long since forgotten; for it certainly was
unknown to the moderns, at least to the Parisians, which to prove, I need use
but one plain simple argument."
There was a Slashdot-story
on Frankin and daylight savings half a year ago for more comments. He was
ahead his contemporaries yet paved the way in many ways. Impressive
fellow.
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IMANAL
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