Experiments and Observations Tending to Illustrate the Nature and Properties of Electricity
Experiments and Observations Tending to Illustrate the Nature and Properties of Electricity

Author: William Sir Watson

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-10-24

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13:

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In 'Experiments and Observations Tending to Illustrate the Nature and Properties of Electricity' by William Sir Watson, the author explores the groundbreaking experiments and observations that shed light on the nature and properties of electricity. Written in a clear and concise style, Watson delves into the scientific context of the 18th century, providing detailed explanations of various electrical phenomena and their implications for the understanding of natural philosophy. The book serves as a foundational text in the history of electricity and science, influencing future research and discoveries in the field. The meticulous documentation of experiments and observations make this book a valuable resource for both students and scholars interested in the history of electricity and scientific inquiry. William Sir Watson, a respected scientist and experimenter of his time, was inspired to write this book based on his own extensive research and contributions to the study of electricity. Watson's expertise and meticulous approach to experimentation are evident throughout the book, solidifying his reputation as a leading figure in the field of electricity. His passion for uncovering the mysteries of nature and sharing his findings with the scientific community are reflected in the detailed accounts presented in this seminal work. I highly recommend 'Experiments and Observations Tending to Illustrate the Nature and Properties of Electricity' to anyone interested in the history of science, particularly the study of electricity. This book offers a fascinating insight into the early understanding of electricity and the pioneering work of William Sir Watson in advancing this field of science.

Consumption and the World of Goods
Consumption and the World of Goods

Author: John Brewer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 1136157670

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The study of past society in terms of what it consumes rather than what it produces is - relatively speaking - a new development. The focus on consumption changes the whole emphasis and structure of historical enquiry. While human beings usually work within a single trade or industry as producers, as, say, farmers or industrial workers, as consumers they are active in many different markets or networks. And while history written from a production viewpoint has, by chance or design, largely been centred on the work of men, consumption history helps to restore women o the mainstream. The history of consumption demands a wide range of skills. It calls upon the methods and techniques of many other disciplines, including archaeology, sociology, social and economic history, anthropology and art criticism. But it is not simply a melting-pot of techniques and skills, brought to bear on a past epoch. Its objectives amount to a new description of a past culture in its totality, as perceived through its patterns of consumption in goods and services. Consumption and the World of Goods is the first of three volumes to examine history from this perspective, and is a unique collaboration between twenty-six leading subject specialists from Europe and North America. The outcome is a new interpretation of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, one that shapes a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services.

Speculative Truth
Speculative Truth

Author: Russell McCormmach

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0195160045

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At once a contribution to a growing body of scholarship on natural philosophy and an analysis of theoretical research, Speculative Truth yields a fascinating view and discourse on the rise of scientific attitudes and ways of knowing - virtually the birth of modern science."--BOOK JACKET.

Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840
Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840

Author: Mary Fairclough

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-03-27

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1137593156

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This book investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings. Electricity was celebrated as a symbol of enlightened progress, but its operation and its utility were unsettlingly obscure. As a result, debates about the nature of electricity dovetailed with discussions of the relation between body and soul, the nature of sexual attraction, the properties of revolutionary communication and the mysteries of vitality. This study explores the complex textual manifestations of electricity between 1740 and 1840, in which commentators describe it both as a material force and as a purely figurative one. The book analyses attempts by both elite and popular practitioners of electricity to elucidate the mysteries of electricity, and traces the figurative uses of electrical language in the works of writers including Mary Robinson, Edmund Burke, Erasmus Darwin, John Thelwall, Mary Shelley and Richard Carlile.