An Entertainment for Angels ? Electricity in the Enlightenment

Zusatztext 'Combines telling anecdote with wise commentary... presents us with numerous tasty and well-presented historical morsels' Informationen zum Autor Patricia Fara is a Senior Tutor at Clare College at the University of Cambridge! where she teaches history of science. She is also the author of Newton: The Making of Genius (Macmillan! 2002) and Sex! Botany and Empire (Icon! 2003). Zusammenfassung Benjamin Franklin’s Enlightenment world of philosophy, spectacle and electricity

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Patricia Fara, Fara Patricia
• Verlag: Icon Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.02.2002
• EAN: 9781840464597
• ISBN: 978-1-84046-459-7
• Seiten: 160
• Abmessung: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Serien: REVOLUTIONS IN SCIENCE; Revolutions in Science S.; Icon Science; Revolutions in Science S.
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; popular science, Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism, ANF:Science, SCIENCE / Electricity, SCIENCE / Electromagnetism, Electricity - History - 18th century, Magnetism - History - 18th century