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BL
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990943
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b745313
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| Main Entry
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Fara, Patricia.
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| Title & Author
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An entertainment for angels : : electricity in the Enlightenment /\ Patricia Fara.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge :: Icon Books,, 2003.
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vii, 177 pages :: illustrations ;; 20 cm
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| ISBN
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1840464593
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: 9781840464597
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| Notes
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Originally published: 2002.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Part I. Illuminations : the light of reason. Interpretations -- Electricity and enlightenment -- Part II. Shocking inventions : instruments. Robert Boyle and the air-pump -- Francis Hauksbee and the electrical machine -- Stephen Gray and the charity boy -- Pieter van Musschenbroek and the Leyden jar -- Part III. Lightning cures : applications. Benjamin Franklin -- Knobs or points? -- The business of medicine -- Therapeutic shocks -- Part IV. Sparks of imagination : theories. Problems -- Fluids and atmospheres -- Theological aethers -- Measurement and mathematics -- Part V. The flow of life : current electricity. Henry Cavendish and the torpedo -- Luigi Galvani and his frogs -- Alessandro Volta and his pile -- Resuscitation.
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Electricity-- History-- 18th century.
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Magnetism-- History-- 18th century.
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Electricity.
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Magnetism.
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| Dewey Classification
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537.09033
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| LC Classification
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QC507.F37 2003
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