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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Patricia Fara, Fara Patricia
• Editore: Icon Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.02.2002
• EAN: 9781840464597
• ISBN: 978-1-84046-459-7
• Pagine: 160
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: REVOLUTIONS IN SCIENCE; Revolutions in Science S.; Icon Science; Revolutions in Science S.
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; popular science, Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism, ANF:Science, SCIENCE / Electricity, SCIENCE / Electromagnetism, Electricity - History - 18th century, Magnetism - History - 18th century