A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America
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by James Delbourgo •
From the book jacket:
Benjamin Franklin’s invention of the lightning rod is the founding fable of American science, but Franklin was only one of may early Americans fascinated by electricity. As a dramatically new physical experience, electricity amazed those who dared to tame the lighning 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.
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