Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between October 04, 2021 and June 21, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Benjamin Franklin giving up his wig during the revolution”; “with Benjamin Franklin giving up his wig during the revolution”; “Benjamin Franklin’s experiment on George Whitefield’s audible range”. It most often appears alongside Athens, Germany, Google.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: October 04, 2021
- Last seen: June 21, 2024
Appears In
- Highlights From The Comments On Modern Architecture
- ACX Grants ++: The First Half
- Your Book Review: Autobiography Of Yukichi Fukuzawa
Related Pages
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- Athens (2 shared issues)
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- Germany (2 shared issues)
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- Google (2 shared issues)
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- Japan (2 shared issues)
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- Nigeria (2 shared issues)
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- NIMBYs (2 shared issues)
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- Steven Pinker (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- UK (2 shared issues)
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- United States (2 shared issues)
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- 19th century African art (1 shared issues)
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- 20th century (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
In the United States, the movement was associated with American republicanism, with Benjamin Franklin giving up his wig during the revolution, and later the Gold Spoon Oration of 1840 denouncing Martin Van Buren.
#3: Acoustics Of Historical Speeches I use acoustic simulation to investigate historical accounts of speeches to large numbers of people (see Benjamin Franklin's experiment on George Whitefield's audible range for an example). This requires visiting sites of speeches to take geometric and sound pressure measurements, and some archival research for background on the sites. Once I have this information I can build a computer acoustic simulation with my own software setup. I've already done this for Whitefield, Julius Caesar, and Elizabeth I. I'm now trying to raise $10,000 for site visits for Demosthenes at the Pnyx in Athens, Henry V at Agincourt ("Band of Brothers" speech), and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Because of the project is so interdisciplinary, it's hard to find funding through standard channels. If you or anyone else is interested in funding science to learn more about history, email me at boren@american.edu.
Fukuzawa was born into a low-ranking samurai family in Osaka in 1835. He is often described as a Japanese Benjamin Franklin. But with his knack for popping up at moments of great historical importance he also slightly resembles a Japanese Forrest Gump. When Japan opens its ports to American and European ships, he’s there. When Japan makes its first diplomatic missions abroad, he’s there. And when you dive into the history of Japan’s modern institutions—the police force, the universities, the banking system, the press—Fuzukawa is there as well.