Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin : : Facts and Fictions in Science, Religion, and Art / / Jan Wim Buisman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Buisman, Jan Wim,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Leiden University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; Introduction: Lightning after Franklin --; Science and Technology --; 1 A New Invention --; 2 The Introduction of the Lightning Rod in the Netherlands --; 3 Eighteenth-Century Physical Theories on Thunderstorms --; Religion --; 4 Official Religion --; 5 Marginal and Marginalised Religious Reactions --; 6 Intermezzo: Electrical Nature? The Animated Nature of Theosophy --; Art --; 7 Thunderstorms and Electricity in Poetry, Music, and Painting --; By Way of Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Illustration Credits --; Index of Names
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789400604339; 9783111023748
• DOI: 10.1515/9789400604339
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jan Wim Buisman.

From time immemorial, thunder and lightning were seen as a wrathful Deity’s instruments of punishment. But then, in 1752, came Benjamin Franklin’s paradigm-shifting invention of the lightning rod, and the way we view God and nature was changed forever.