Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin

Facts and Fictions in Science, Religion, and Art

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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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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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-01
Mått170 x 240 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagLeiden University Press
ISBN9789087283872

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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