Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin
Title
Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin
Subtitle
Facts and Fictions in Science, Religion, and Art
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€ 140,99
ISBN
9789400604339
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Number of pages
384
Language
English
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17 x 24 cm
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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

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.
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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.