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New. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Essex, Icon Books, 2003. Reprint. 8vo. Paperback with pictorial cover, 177 pp. "The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was fascinated by scientific experiments, " writes Patricia Fara in the Introduction to this tale of the strange birth of electrical science, and its emergence from a high-society party trick to a symbol of man's dominance over nature. Fara writes of Benjamin Franklin, of course, but also of possibly lesser-known personnages in such chapters as "Robert Boyle and the Air-pump, " "Francis Hauksbee and the Electrical Machine, " "Henry and the Torpedo, " and "Luigi Balvani and his Frogs." "Vividly captures the ferment created by the new science of the Enlightenment, Fara deftly shows how new knowledge emerged from a rich mix of improved technology, medical quackery, Continental theorizing, religious doubt and scientific rivalry."-New Scientist. New.
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