Lightning in the age of Benjamin Franklin facts and fictions in science, religion, and art

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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adam_text TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: LIGHTNING AFTER FRANKLIN 9 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 21 1A NEW INVENTION 23 2 THE INTRODUCTION OF THE LIGHTNING ROD IN THE NETHERLANDS 33 EARLY EXPERIMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS (1745-1779) 33 THE FIRST INSTALLATIONS 43 SOME TENTATIVE CONCLUSIONS 48 3 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PHYSICAL THEORIES ON THUNDERSTORMS 53 THE INTERNATIONAL DISCOURSE 53 THE NETHERLANDS 63 CONCLUSION: SCIENCE OR SUPERSTITION ? 66 RELIGION 69 4 OFFICIAL RELIGION 71 GOD S WRATH 71 A CHANGE IN MENTALITY 80 THE FATALISM CONTROVERSY 82 PROTESTANT ENLIGHTENMENT AND MODERATE ORTHODOXY IN THE NETHERLANDS 90 PHYSICO-THEOLOGY: THE NETHERLANDS 101 PHYSICO-THEOLOGY: EUROPE 106 5 MARGINAL AND MARGINALISED RELIGIOUS REACTIONS 111 THUNDERSTORMS: THE DEVIL S WORK? 111 ENLIGHTENMENT S BATTLE WITH APOTROPAIC BELL-RINGING 124 WETTERSCHIESSEN: FIRING CANNON AT THUNDERCLOUDS 129 BEYOND DEMONOLOGY: THE CULT OF SAINTS 132 NATURE: POPULAR BELIEFS AND AGRICULTURAL LIFE 145 6 INTERMEZZO: ELECTRICAL NATURE? THE ANIMATED NATURE OF THEOSOPHY 161 I?, IBIIOTHEK DEUTSCHES MUSEUM - : . ART 177 7 THUNDERSTORMS AND ELECTRICITY IN POETRY, MUSIC, AND PAINTING 179 THE SEXUAL METAPHOR 179 THE POLITICAL METAPHOR 186 METAPHOR FOR WAR, VIOLENCE, AND QUARREL 192 METAPHOR FOR A SPARKLING MIND OR TORMENTED INNER LIFE 195 FROM METAPHORISING TO AESTHETICISING 201 BY WAY OF CONCLUSION 227 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEAR, THE CONTROL OF NATURE, AND PLEASURE 227 EPILOGUE 240 NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY ILLUSTRATION CREDITS INDEX OF NAMES 245 291 319 321
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