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【19世紀ロンドンの電気，展示，実験】

Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, exhibition, and experiment in early nineteenth-century London.　cloth　328 p.

Morus, Iwan Rhys. 　著

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発行年月	1998年01月
出版社／提供元	Princeton University Press
出版国	アメリカ合衆国
言語	英語
媒体	冊子
装丁	cloth
ページ数／巻数	328 p.
ジャンル	洋書／人文科学／文学／イギリス文学
ISBN	9780691059525
商品コード	0209823383
本の性格	学術書
書評掲載誌	Choice
商品URL	https://kw.maruzen.co.jp/ims/itemDetail.html?itmCd=0209823383

内容

During the second quarter of the 19th century, Londoners were enthralledby a strange fluid called electricity. Revealing connections among suchdiverse fields as scientific lecturing, telegraphic communication, andinnovative medical therapies, this book shows how electrical culture wasintegrated into a new machine-dominated, consumer society.

<TABLE><TR><TD> <TD>List of Illustrations<TR><TD> <TD>Introduction: Electricity, Experiment, and theExperimental Life <TR><TD>Ch. 1 <TD>The Errors of aFashionable Man: Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution<TR><TD>Ch. 2 <TD>The Vast Laboratory of Nature: WilliamSturgeon and Popular Electricity <TR><TD>Ch. 3<TD>Blending Instruction with Amusement: London's Galleries ofPractical Science <TR><TD>Ch. 4 <TD>A Science ofExperiment and Observation: The Rise and Fall of the London ElectricalSociety <TR><TD>Ch. 5 <TD>The Right Arm of God:Electricity and the Experimental Production of Life <TR><TD>Pt.2 <TD>Managing Machine Culture <TR><TD><TD>Introduction: From Performance to Process <TR><TD>Ch.6 <TD>They Have No Right to Look for Fame: The Patenting of Electricity<TR><TD>Ch. 7 <TD>To Annihilate Time and Space: TheInvention of the Telegraph <TR><TD>Ch. 8 <TD>Under MedicalDirection: The Regulation of Electrotherapy <TR><TD><TD>Coda: The Disciplining of Experimental Life <TR><TD><TD>Notes <TR><TD> <TD>Bibliography<TR><TD> <TD>Index