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English: Representation of waterspout accompanying "Water-spouts and Whirlwinds" by Benjamin Franklin.

Figure III represents the semimagic square Benjamin Franklin constructed in 1750 having magic constant 260.

Keywords: Waterspout, Benjamin Franklin, pen & ink drawing, historic drawing
Date circa 1750
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Benjamin Franklin  (1706–1790)  wikidata:Q34969 s:en:Author:Benjamin Franklin q:en:Benjamin Franklin
 
Benjamin Franklin
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pseudonym: Silence Dogood; Ben Franklin; The First American; Franklin; Poor Richard
Description -American author, statesman, politician, inventor and diplomat
Date of birth/death 17 January 1706 Edit this at Wikidata 17 April 1790 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Boston, Massachusetts Philadelphia. Pennsylvania
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current15:59, 30 March 2005Thumbnail for version as of 15:59, 30 March 20051,112 × 1,732 (1.63 MB)Solipsist~commonswiki (talk | contribs)Representation of waterspout accompanying "Water-spouts and Whirlwinds" by Benjamin Franklin. This paper was republished in "The complete works in philosophy, politics, and morals, of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin ....", 1806. Volume II, p. 26. Library

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