A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America

by JamesDelbourgo (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2006

  $53.60

  Traces the path of electricity through early American culture, exploring how the relationship between human, natural, and divine powers was understood in the 18th Century. This book offers a view of the origins of American science and the cultural meaning of the American Enlightenment. It talks about the revolutionary New World of wonder.