A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders : : Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America / / James Delbourgo.
Benjamin Franklin's invention of the lightning rod is the founding fable of American science, but Franklin was only one of many early Americans fascinated by electricity. As a dramatically new physical experience, electricity amazed those who dared to tame the lightning and set it coursing thro...
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Delbourgo, James, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders : Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America / James Delbourgo. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2006] ©2006 1 online resource (384 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Seizing the Lightning -- 1 Atlantic Circuits -- 2 Lightning Rods and the Direction of Nature -- 3 Wonderful Recreations -- 4 Electrical Politics and Political Electricity -- 5 How to Handle an Electric Eel -- 6 Electrical Humanitarianism -- 7 Electricity as Common Sense -- Conclusion: What Is American Enlightenment? -- Notes -- Illustration Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Benjamin Franklin's invention of the lightning rod is the founding fable of American science, but Franklin was only one of many early Americans fascinated by electricity. As a dramatically new physical experience, electricity amazed those who dared to tame the lightning and set it coursing through their own bodies. Thanks to its technological and medical utility, but also its surprising ability to defy rational experimental mastery, electricity was a powerful experience of enlightenment, at once social, intellectual, and spiritual. In this compelling book, James Delbourgo moves beyond Franklin to trace the path of electricity through early American culture, exploring how the relationship between human, natural, and divine powers was understood in the eighteenth century. By examining the lives and visions of natural philosophers, spectacular showmen, religious preachers, and medical therapists, he shows how electrical experiences of wonder, terror, and awe were connected to a broad array of cultural concerns that defined the American Enlightenment. The history of lightning rods, electrical demonstrations, electric eels, and medical electricity reveals how early American science, medicine, and technology were shaped by a culture of commercial performance, evangelical religion, and republican politics from mid-century to the early republic. The first book to situate early American experimental science in the context of a transatlantic public sphere, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders offers a captivating view of the origins of American science and the cultural meaning of the American Enlightenment. In a story of shocks and sparks from New England to the Caribbean, Delbourgo brilliantly illuminates a revolutionary New World of wonder. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Electricity Experiments History 18th century. Enlightenment United States. Science Social aspects United States History 18th century. Science United States History 18th century. HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674271999?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674271999 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674271999/original |
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