Benjamin Franklin: “Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge”

Glossary

• &c etc.
• all philosophical experiments those pursuits that at present have no practical application but might in the future
• arts professions and specialties
• assaying of ores determining the values of metals that have been mined
• making such as are useful, but particular …more general making more widely available those methods and plants presently available only on certain plantations
• natural philosophe scientist
• province area
• raising and conveying of waterpumping water from a source and moving it, for instance, through pipes
• situation location
• virtuosi highly accomplished individuals
• viz. abbreviation for the Latin videlicet, meaning “for example”