Jan Wim Buisman

Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin

Facts and Fictions in Science, Religion, and Art

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Leiden University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 170mm
• ISBN-13: 9789087283872
• ISBN-10: 9087283873
• Artikelnr.: 69244947

Autorenporträt

Jan Wim Buisman (1954) wrote numerous publications about the history of the religious mentality and the feeling of nature in the Netherlands from 1750 to 1830. He is a retired University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.