On the latter's death in 1688 he estate passed to a cousin William Wollaston, writer and philosopher.
Its focus on practice as well as speculation attracted a more mature Franklin, who commissioned and published Johnson's textbook Elementa Philsophica in 1752, then promoted it in the College of Philadelphia (now Penn University).
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