Electric and Magnetic Dreams in Romantic Europe. The debate about the representation of Nature in the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries
AutorIn Name
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Jean
Dhombres
Institution
Institut Éthique Histoire Humanités
Place
Genève
Year
2014/2015
Abstract
From Mesmer's Animal Magnetism to Ampère's electrodynamics, this book attempts to shed light on the multiple ways through which electricity and magnetism became metaphors, explaining the universe more...
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