Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin : : Facts and Fictions in Science, Religion, and Art / / 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.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Table of contents -- |t Introduction: Lightning after Franklin -- |t Science and Technology -- |t 1 A New Invention -- |t 2 The Introduction of the Lightning Rod in the Netherlands -- |t 3 Eighteenth-Century Physical Theories on Thunderstorms -- |t Religion -- |t 4 Official Religion -- |t 5 Marginal and Marginalised Religious Reactions -- |t 6 Intermezzo: Electrical Nature? The Animated Nature of Theosophy -- |t Art -- |t 7 Thunderstorms and Electricity in Poetry, Music, and Painting -- |t By Way of Conclusion -- |t Notes -- |t Bibliography -- |t Illustration Credits -- |t Index of Names |
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