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Lightning in the age of Benjamin Franklin : facts and fictions in science, religion, and art /
From time immemorial, thunder and lightning were seen as a wrathful Deity's instruments of punishment. But then, in 1752, came Benjamin Franklin's paradigm-shifting invention of the lightning rod, and the way we view God and nature was changed forever.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Leiden University Press,
[2023]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From time immemorial, thunder and lightning were seen as a wrathful Deity's instruments of punishment. But then, in 1752, came Benjamin Franklin's paradigm-shifting invention of the lightning rod, and the way we view God and nature was changed forever. |
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| Notas: | Introduction: Lightning after Franklin 1. A New Invention 2. The Introduction of the Lightning Rod in the Netherlands 3. Eighteenth-Century Physical Theories on Thunderstorms 4. Official Religion 5. Marginal and Marginalised Religious Reactions 6. Intermezzo: Electrical Nature? The Animated Nature of Theosophy 7. Thunderstorms and Electricity in Poetry, Music, and Painting 8. By Way of Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Illustration credits, Index of Names |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9400604335 9789400604339 |