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An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment
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Author
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Patricia Fara.
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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7.6
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5.1
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0.8
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ISBN
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9781840464597
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Pages/Publication Date
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177/2003
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Daedalus Item Code
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73700
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Description
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"The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was fascinated by scientific experiments," writes Patricia Fara in the Introduction to this tale of the strange birth of electrical science, and its emergence from a high-society party trick to a symbol of man's dominance over nature. Fara writes of Benjamin Franklin, of course, but also of possibly lesser-known personnages in such chapters as "Robert Boyle and the Air-pump," "Francis Hauksbee and the Electrical Machine," "Henry and the Torpedo," and "Luigi Balvani and his Frogs." "Vividly captures the ferment created by the new science of the Enlightenment … Fara deftly shows how new knowledge emerged from a rich mix of improved technology, medical quackery, Continental theorising, religious doubt and scientific rivalry."—New Scientist
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