An Entertainment for Angels Electricity in the Enlightenment |
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| Author:
| Fara, Patricia |
| Series title: | Revolutions in Science Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-13148-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2003 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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An Entertainment for Angels tells the story of how electricity charged the eighteenth-century imagination. Patricia Fara vividly portrays people's struggles to understand the unusual and exciting effects that electrical experiments were producing.
An Entertainment for Angels tells the story of how electricity charged the eighteenth-century imagination. Patricia Fara vividly portrays people's struggles to understand the unusual and exciting effects that electrical experiments were producing.