pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: AN ENTERTAINMENT FOR ANGELS (ICON SCIENCE)
ELECTRICITY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT
By: Patricia Fara
Format: Paperback

List price: £8.99
Our price: £6.56
Discount:
27% off
You save: £2.43
ISBN 10: 178578207X
ISBN 13: 9781785782077
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 0 available
Publisher: ICON BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 20 July, 2017
Series: Icon Science
Pages: 192
Description: Benjamin Franklin's Enlightenment world of philosophy, spectacle and electricity
Synopsis: Electricity was the scientific fashion of the Enlightenment, 'an Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men'. Lecturers attracted huge audiences to marvel at sparkling fountains, flaming drinks, pirouetting dancers and electrified boys. Enlightenment optimists predicted that this new-found power of nature would cure illnesses, improve crop production, even bring the dead back to life. Benjamin Franklin, better known as one of America's founding fathers, played a key role in developing the new instruments and theories of electricity during the eighteenth century. Celebrated for drawing lightning down from the sky with a kite, Franklin was an Enlightenment expert on electricity, developing one of the most successful explanations of this mysterious phenomenon.But Patricia Fara, Senior Tutor of Clare College Cambridge, reveals how the study of electricity became intertwined with Enlightenment politics. By demonstrating their control of the natural world, Enlightenment philosophers hoped to gain authority over society. And their stunning electrical performances provided dramatic evidence of their special powers.
Illustrations: Illustrations, unspecified
Publication: UK
Imprint: Icon Books Ltd
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:
A LAB OF ONE'S OWN (HB)
AN ENTERTAINMENT FOR ANGELS
AN ENTERTAINMENT FOR ANGELS (HB)
AN ENTERTAINMENT FOR ANGELS (ICON SCIENCE)
AN ENTERTAINMENT FOR ANGELS (ICON SCIENCE) (PB)
ERASMUS DARWIN
ERASMUS DARWIN (HB)
FATAL ATTRACTION (HB)
INSTRUMENTS OF ATTRACTION (PB)
LAB OF ONE''S OWN
LIFE AFTER GRAVITY (HB)
MEMORY
MEMORY (HB)
MEMORY (PB)
NEWTON
NEWTON (HB)
NEWTON (HB)
NEWTON (PB)
NEWTON (PB)
PANDORA''S BREECHES (PB)
PANDORA'S BREECHES
PANDORA'S BREECHES (PB)
SCIENCE (PB)
SCIENTISTS ANONYMOUS (PB)
SEX, BOTANY AND EMPIRE (ICON SCIENCE)
SEX, BOTANY AND EMPIRE (ICON SCIENCE)
SEX, BOTANY AND EMPIRE (ICON SCIENCE) (HB)
SEX, BOTANY AND EMPIRE (ICON SCIENCE) (PB)
SEX, BOTANY AND EMPIRE (ICON SCIENCE) (PB)
SEX, BOTANY, AND EMPIRE (HB)
SYMPATHETIC ATTRACTIONS
SYMPATHETIC ATTRACTIONS (HB)
SYMPATHETIC ATTRACTIONS (HB)
SYMPATHETIC ATTRACTIONS (PB)
THE CHANGING WORLD (PB)

CUSTOMERS WHO PURCHASED THIS ITEM ALSO BOUGHT
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Paperback)
By: Carlo Rovelli
more details
Oxford AQA History for GCSE: Thematic Studies c790-Present Day (Paperback)
By: Aaron Wilkes, Kevin Newman, Lindsay Bruce
more details
Revise AQA GCSE (9-1) History Germany 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship Revision Guide and Workbook (Mixed media product)
By: Kirsty Taylor
more details
TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
By: Bill Bryson
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Our Price : £8.02
more details
Science Museum 100 Physics Ideas in 100 Words (Hardback)
By: DK
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Our Price : £9.48
more details
Science Museum 100 Maths Ideas in 100 Words (Hardback)
By: DK
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Our Price : £9.48
more details
The Invention of Nature (Paperback)
By: Andrea Wulf
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Our Price : £10.94
more details
On the Origin of Species (Paperback)
By: Charles Darwin, Gillian Beer (Editor)
Oxford University Press
Our Price : £6.56
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
 science: general issues
 history of science


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
By: SARA KHAN
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
add to basket

Learning
That''s My Story!: Drama for Confidence, Communication and C...
By: ADAM POWER-ANNAND
The ability to communicate is an essential life skill for all children, underpinning their confidence, personal and social wellbeing, and sense of self.
add to basket