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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