So that's it for the election.

[Hitchens]

The fact that Franklin was in regular correspondence with other people working in the field?

[Alarti0001]

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The fact that Franklin was in regular correspondence with other people working in the field?

Not even just that, but scientific progression can only be stopped by mass destruction of knowledge, see the dark ages. Even during the dark ages scientific progression was progressing rapidly(for the time) in the middle east and far east (they just didnt have the internet for rapid transmission of ideas)