Jan Wim Buisman

Gebundenes Buch

Lightning in the Age of Benjamin Franklin

Facts and Fictions in Science, Religion, and Art

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Leiden University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 170mm
• ISBN-13: 9789087283872
• ISBN-10: 9087283873
• Artikelnr.: 69244947