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An entertainment for angels electricity in the Enlightenment

Patricia Fara

New York Columbia University Press 2002

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  • Title:
    An entertainment for angels electricity in the Enlightenment
  • Author: Patricia Fara
  • Subjects: Electricity; ENERGIA ELÉTRICA; ELETRICIDADE
  • Notes: Includes bibliographical references
  • Description: Interpretations -- Electricity and enlightenment -- Robert Boyle and the air-pump -- Francis Hauksbee and the electrical machine -- Stephen Gray and the charity boy -- Pieter van Musschenbroek and the Leyden jar -- Benjamin Franklin -- Knobs or points? -- The business of medicine -- Therapeutic shocks -- Problems -- Fluids and atmospheres -- Theological aethers -- Measurement and mathematics -- Henry Cavendish and the torpedo -- Luigi Galvani and his frogs -- Alessandro Volta and his pile -- Resuscitation
    "An Entertainment for Angels tells the story of how electricity charged the eighteenth-century imagination. With contemporary illustrations and engaging prose, Patricia Fara portrays the struggles to understand the unusual and exciting effects that electrical experiments were producing." "One of the heroes of the story is Benjamin Franklin, renowned on both sides of the Atlantic as an expert on electricity, who introduced lightning rods to protect tall buildings, pioneered techniques to treat paralyzed patients, and developed one of the most successful explanations of this mysterious phenomenon. Others include Luigi Galvani, whose electrical research on frogs and animals makes for grisly reading but led to the discovery of direct current electricity; and Alessandro Volta, who - with Napoleon's enthusiastic support - became one of Europe's leading scientific practitioners and invented the world's first battery."--BOOK JACKET
  • Publisher: New York Columbia University Press
  • Creation Date: 2002
  • Format: 177 p. ill. 19 cm.
  • Language: English
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