رعد و برق در عصر بنجامین فرانکلین: حقایق و افسانه‌ها در علم، دین و هنر

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. Table of contents 7 Introduction: Lightning after Franklin 9 Science and Technology 21 1 A New Invention 21 2 The Introduction of the Lightning Rod in the Netherlands 33 3 Eighteenth-Century Physical Theories on Thunderstorms 53 Religion 69 4 Official Religion 69 5 Marginal and Marginalised Religious Reactions 111 6 Intermezzo: Electrical Nature? The Animated Nature of Theosophy 161 Art 177 7 Thunderstorms and Electricity in Poetry, Music, and Painting 177 By Way of Conclusion 227 Notes 245 Bibliography 291 Illustration Credits 319 Index of Names 321