001479313 000__ 05490nam\a22008415i\4500 001479313 001__ 1479313 001479313 003__ DE-B1597 001479313 005__ 20231026035021.0 001479313 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479313 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479313 008__ 221201t20062006mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479313 020__ $$a9780674271999 001479313 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674271999$$2doi 001479313 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)613868 001479313 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1294423623 001479313 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479313 0410_ $$aeng 001479313 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479313 050_4 $$aE162 001479313 072_7 $$aHIS036020$$2bisacsh 001479313 08204 $$a303.48/3097309033 001479313 1001_ $$aDelbourgo, James, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001479313 24512 $$aA Most Amazing Scene of Wonders :$$bElectricity and Enlightenment in Early America /$$cJames Delbourgo. 001479313 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2006] 001479313 264_4 $$c©2006 001479313 300__ $$a1 online resource (384 p.) 001479313 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479313 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479313 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479313 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479313 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tList of Illustrations -- $$tIntroduction: Seizing the Lightning -- $$t1 Atlantic Circuits -- $$t2 Lightning Rods and the Direction of Nature -- $$t3 Wonderful Recreations -- $$t4 Electrical Politics and Political Electricity -- $$t5 How to Handle an Electric Eel -- $$t6 Electrical Humanitarianism -- $$t7 Electricity as Common Sense -- $$tConclusion: What Is American Enlightenment? -- $$tNotes -- $$tIllustration Sources -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIndex 001479313 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479313 520__ $$aBenjamin Franklin's invention of the lightning rod is the founding fable of American science, but Franklin was only one of many early Americans fascinated by electricity. As a dramatically new physical experience, electricity amazed those who dared to tame the lightning and set it coursing through their own bodies. Thanks to its technological and medical utility, but also its surprising ability to defy rational experimental mastery, electricity was a powerful experience of enlightenment, at once social, intellectual, and spiritual. In this compelling book, James Delbourgo moves beyond Franklin to trace the path of electricity through early American culture, exploring how the relationship between human, natural, and divine powers was understood in the eighteenth century. By examining the lives and visions of natural philosophers, spectacular showmen, religious preachers, and medical therapists, he shows how electrical experiences of wonder, terror, and awe were connected to a broad array of cultural concerns that defined the American Enlightenment. The history of lightning rods, electrical demonstrations, electric eels, and medical electricity reveals how early American science, medicine, and technology were shaped by a culture of commercial performance, evangelical religion, and republican politics from mid-century to the early republic. The first book to situate early American experimental science in the context of a transatlantic public sphere, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders offers a captivating view of the origins of American science and the cultural meaning of the American Enlightenment. In a story of shocks and sparks from New England to the Caribbean, Delbourgo brilliantly illuminates a revolutionary New World of wonder. 001479313 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479313 546__ $$aIn English. 001479313 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. 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