An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment by Patricia Fara

An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment

Revolutions in Science

Patricia Fara

192 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced

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An Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men, one observer called electricity, and it proved to be the most significant scientific discovery of the Enlightenment. Lecturers attracted huge audiences who marveled at sparkling fountains, flaming ...

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