Which 18th Century scientist and politician published the literary work ‘Poor Richard’s Almanack’?
Poor Richard's Almanack Poor Richard's Almanack Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes "Almanac") was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continually from 1732 to 1758. It sold exceptionally well for a pamphlet published in the American colonies; print runs reached 10,000 per year. Franklin, the American inventor, statesman, and publisher, achieved success with "Poor Richard's Almanack". Almanacks were very popular books in colonial America, offering a mixture of seasonal weather forecasts, practical household hints, puzzles, and other amusements. "Poor Richard's Almanack" was also popular for its extensive use
Poor Richard's Almanack Franklin "stole", not borrowed, the name of Richard Saunders from the deceased astrologer-doctor. Franklin also "borrowed—apparently without asking—and adapted the title of an almanac his brother James Franklin was publishing at Newport: "Poor Robin's Almanack" (itself appropriated from a seventeenth-century almanac published under the same title in London)". Louis XVI of France gave a ship to John Paul Jones who renamed her after the "Almanack's" author—"Bonhomme Richard", or "Good man Richard" (the first of several US warships so named). Napoleon Bonaparte considered the "Almanack" significant enough to translate it into Italian, along with the Pennsylvania State Constitution (which Franklin helped