Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin
Jan Wim Buisman
- Title
- Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin
- Subtitle
- Facts and Fictions in Science, Religion, and Art
- Author
- Jan Wim Buisman
- Price
- € 140,99
- ISBN
- 9789400604339
- Format
- eBook PDF (Adobe DRM)
- Number of pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 01 - 05 - 2023
- Dimensions
- 17 x 24 cm
- Categories
- Cultural Studies
- History
- History of Science and Medicine
- Philosophy
- Religion and Theology
- Science and Technology
- Discipline
- Science, Medicine, and Technology
- Also available as
- Hardback - € 141,00
Introduction: Lightning after Franklin
1. A New Invention
2. The Introduction of the Lightning Rod in the Netherlands
3. Eighteenth-Century Physical Theories on Thunderstorms
4. Official Religion
5. Marginal and Marginalised Religious Reactions
6. Intermezzo: Electrical Nature? The Animated Nature of Theosophy
7. Thunderstorms and Electricity in Poetry, Music, and Painting
8. By Way of Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Illustration credits, Index of Names
1. A New Invention
2. The Introduction of the Lightning Rod in the Netherlands
3. Eighteenth-Century Physical Theories on Thunderstorms
4. Official Religion
5. Marginal and Marginalised Religious Reactions
6. Intermezzo: Electrical Nature? The Animated Nature of Theosophy
7. Thunderstorms and Electricity in Poetry, Music, and Painting
8. By Way of Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Illustration credits, Index of Names
Jan Wim Buisman
Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin
Facts and Fictions in Science, Religion, and Art
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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.
Author
Jan Wim Buisman
Jan Wim Buisman (1954) wrote numerous publications about the history of the religious mentality and the feeling of nature in the Netherlands from 1750 to 1830. He is a retired University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.
