عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
QC507 .F37 2003
QC507
.
F37
2003
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
1840464593
(Number (ISBN
9781840464597
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b745313
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
An entertainment for angels :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
electricity in the Enlightenment /
First Statement of Responsibility
Patricia Fara.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Icon Books,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
vii, 177 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
20 cm
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Originally published: 2002.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction -- Part I. Illuminations : the light of reason. Interpretations -- Electricity and enlightenment -- Part II. Shocking inventions : instruments. Robert Boyle and the air-pump -- Francis Hauksbee and the electrical machine -- Stephen Gray and the charity boy -- Pieter van Musschenbroek and the Leyden jar -- Part III. Lightning cures : applications. Benjamin Franklin -- Knobs or points? -- The business of medicine -- Therapeutic shocks -- Part IV. Sparks of imagination : theories. Problems -- Fluids and atmospheres -- Theological aethers -- Measurement and mathematics -- Part V. The flow of life : current electricity. Henry Cavendish and the torpedo -- Luigi Galvani and his frogs -- Alessandro Volta and his pile -- Resuscitation.
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Electricity-- History-- 18th century.
Magnetism-- History-- 18th century.
Electricity.
Magnetism.
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
537
.
09033
Edition
21
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QC507
Book number
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F37
2003
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Fara, Patricia.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201204053955.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
rda
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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