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

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Fara
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2002
• EAN: 9781840464597
• ISBN: 978-1-84046-459-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: REVOLUTIONS IN SCIENCE; Revolutions in Science S.; Icon Science; Revolutions in Science S.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); popular science, Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism, ANF:Science, SCIENCE / Electricity, SCIENCE / Electromagnetism, Electricity - History - 18th century, Magnetism - History - 18th century