Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin

Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin Facts and Fictions in Science, Religion, and Art

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9789087283872
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Imprint: Leiden University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 551.5632
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 384
Weight: -1g
Height: 240mm
Width: 170mm