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本杰明·富兰克林:本杰明·富兰克林自传·补录 190
本杰明·富兰克林《本杰明·富兰克林自传》· The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · 领导
It was, however, some time before those papers were much taken notice of in England. A copy of them happening to fall into the hands of the Count de Buffon, a philosopher deservedly of great reputation in France, and, indeed, all over Europe, he prevailed with M. Dalibard to translate them into French, and they were printed at Paris. The publication offended the Abbé Nollet, preceptor in Natural Philosophy to the royal family, and an able experimenter, who had form'd and publish'd a theory of electricity, which then had the general vogue. He could not at first believe that such a work came from America, and said it must have been fabricated by his enemies at Paris, to decry his system. Afterwards, having been assur'd that there really existed such a person as Franklin at Philadelphia, which he had doubted, he wrote and published a volume of Letters, chiefly address'd to me, defending his theory, and denying the verity of my experiments, and of the positions deduc'd from them.
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定位:Additional excerpt 190 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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然而,这些论文在英国很久没被注意。一份副本偶然落到布丰伯爵手里,他是法国乃至全欧洲都享有盛誉的哲学家。他说服达利巴尔先生译成法文,在巴黎出版。出版触怒了诺莱神父,他是王室自然哲学导师,也是能干的实验者,曾提出并发表当时流行的电学理论。他起初不相信这样的作品来自美洲,说一定是巴黎的敌人伪造来贬低他的体系。后来他确信费城真有富兰克林这个人(他之前怀疑过),便写并出版了一卷书信,主要针对富兰克林,捍卫自己的理论,否认富兰克林的实验及由此得出的结论。
上下文
出自富兰克林自传,讲述富兰克林的电学论文在法国出版后,引发与诺莱神父的理论争论。
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当你的新观点挑战了流行理论,你如何面对权威的质疑?是坚持验证,还是退缩?
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