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IN OUR TIME - SUBJECT RESEARCH
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THE ORIGINS OF ELECTRICITY
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Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blelectric.htm
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Further Reading
An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment by Patricia Fara (Icon Books, 2002)
Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century by Iwan Morus (Icon Books, 2004)
Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, Exhibition and Experiment in early Nineteenth-century London by Iwan Morus (Princeton, 1998)
The Sciences in Enlightened Europe by Simon Schaffer (University of Chicago Press 1999).
The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity by Marcello Pera (Princeton University Press 1992) - Patricia Fara says that this is delightfully written and includes much background information.
Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries by John L. Heilbron (Berkeley, University of California Press 1979) - the classic academic study.
Science and the Enlightenment by Thomas L. Hankins (Cambridge University Press 1985) - lucid introduction designed for undergraduates.
Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment by Giuliano Pancaldi (Princeton University Press, 2003)
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