In the Land of Marvels - Science, Fabricated Realities, Industrial Espionage in Age of Grand

"This book explores the early advent of electricity as a pivotal phenomenon in the cultivation of popular cultural scientific interest"--

About the author

Paola Bertucci (NEW HAVEN, CT) is a professor in the department of history at Yale University. She is the author of the award-winning Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France.

Product details

• Authors: Paola Bertucci, Paola (Yale University) Bertucci
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781421447100
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4710-0
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Information Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); European History, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, History of Science, Social and cultural history