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| Autore principale: | Fara, Patricia.
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| Titolo: | An entertainment for angels : electricity in the Enlightenment / Patricia Fara. |
| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : Icon books, 2002. |
| Descrizione fisica: | VII, 177 p. : ill. ; 20 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: List of illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Pt. 1. Illuminations: the light of reason: 1. Interpretations 2. Electricity and Enlightenment. Pt. 2. Shocking inventions: instruments: 1. Robert Boyle and the air-pump 2. Francis Hauksbee and the electrical machine 3. Stephen Gray and the charity boy 4. Pieter van Musschenbroek and the Leyden Jar. Pt. 3. Lightning cures: applications: 1. Benjamin Franklin 2. Knobs or points? 3. The business of medicine 4. Therapeutic shocks. Pt. 4. Sparks of imagination: theories: 1. Problems 2. Fluids and atmospheres 3. Theological aethers 4. Measurement and mathematics. Pt. 5. The flow of life: current electricity: 1. Henry Cavendish and the torpedo 2. Luigi Galvani and his frogs 3. Alessandro Volta and his pile 4. Resuscitation. Further reading. Notes. Other titles available from Icon/Totem |
| ISBN: | 1840464593 |
| Discipline: | Elettricità e Magnetismo--Studi. Elettricità e Magnetismo--Strumenti. |
| Keyword: | Strumenti--Fisica. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVIII. |
| Collocazione: | LS 14919 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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