Elements of Chemistry, including the recent discoveries and doctrines of the science. With an appendix and plates
Author: Edward TURNER (M.D., F.R.S., etc.)
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Published: 1828
Total Pages: 864
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Author: Edward TURNER (M.D., F.R.S., etc.)
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Published: 1828
Total Pages: 864
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Turner (M.D., F.R.S.E.)
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Published: 1830
Total Pages: 600
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Published: 1837
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Lee Comstock
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 444
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 472
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 690
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Published: 1831
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stella Pratt-Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1317007816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing electricity as a site for intense and imaginative Victorian speculation, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the synthesis of nineteenth-century electricity made possible by the powerful combination of science, literature and the popular imagination. With electricity resisting clear description, even by those such as Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell who knew it best, Pratt-Smith argues that electricity was both metaphorically suggestive and open to imaginative speculation. Her book engages with Victorian scientific texts, popular and specialist periodicals and the work of leading midcentury novelists, including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, William Makepeace Thackeray and Wilkie Collins. Examining the work of William Harrison Ainsworth and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pratt-Smith explores how Victorian novelists attributed magical qualities to electricity, imbuing it with both the romance of the past and the thrill of the future. She concludes with a case study of Benjamin Lumley’s Another World, which presents an enticing fantasy of electricity’s potential based on contemporary developments. Ultimately, her book contends that writing and reading about electricity appropriated and expanded its imaginative scope, transformed its factual origins and applications and contravened the bounds of literary genres and disciplinary constraints.
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Published: 1827
Total Pages: 506
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