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Patricia Fara Entertainment for Angels
Icon Books 1840464593 / 9781840464597 PAPERBACK New
1840464593 1840464593 Review"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 theorising, religious doubt and scientific rivalry." New Scientist "Neat and stylish... Fara's account of Benjamin Franklin's circle of friends and colleagues brings them squabbling, eureka-ing to life." Guardian "Combines telling anecdote with wise commentary... presents us with numerous tasty and well-presented historical morsels." Times Higher Education SupplementReview"Fara entertainingly describes how experimenters caught the public imagination.... Combines telling anecdote with wise commentary." -- Times Higher Education Supplement"Myths of the modern era rarely withstand inspection, and Benjamin Franklin's supposed discovery of electricity via the famed kite experiment is no exception... Fara's concise history reveals how complicated and groping scientific progress has been." -- Booklist"History of science writer Fara tells the story of how new discoveries in electricity helped spark the imagination of Enlightenment inventors.... Well illustrated; numerous references. Recommended [for] general readers." -- Choice"Neat and stylish." -- The Guardian"Fara's writing talents shine in her original and sparkling approach to eighteenth century electricity." -- Marjorie C. Malley, ISIS--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.Product DescriptionAn Entertainment for Angels tells the story of how electricity charged the eighteenth-century imagination. Patricia Fara vividly portrays people's struggles to understand the unusual and exciting effects that electrical experiments were producing.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.About the AuthorPatricia Fara is a Fellow of Clare College at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches history of science. She is also the author of Newton: The Making of Genius (Macmillan) and Sex, Botany and Empire (Icon, forthcoming).
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