Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of EnlightenmentPrinceton University Press, 2005 - 400 pàgines Giuliano Pancaldi sets us within the cosmopolitan cultures of Enlightenment Europe to tell the story of Alessandro Volta--the brilliant man whose name is forever attached to electromotive force. Providing fascinating details, many previously unknown, Pancaldi depicts Volta as an inventor who used his international network of acquaintances to further his quest to harness the power of electricity. This is the story of a man who sought recognition as a natural philosopher and ended up with an invention that would make an everyday marvel of electric lighting. |
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
THE MAKING OF A NATURAL PHILOSOPHER | 7 |
Chapter 2 | 42 |
The Soil and the Institutions | 48 |
THE ELECTROPHORUS | 73 |
VOLTAS SCIENCE OF ELECTRICITY | 110 |
Chapter 5 | 142 |
THE BATTERY | 178 |
Chapter 7 | 209 |
THE SCIENTIST AS HERO | 257 |
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND CONTINGENCY | 273 |
Notes | 291 |
Bibliography | 337 |
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