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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| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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