| Abstract: | James Delbourgo, chair of a program in the history and philosophyof science at McGill University, examines the disparate viewson electricity held in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuriesby a broad variety of individuals including scientists, showmen,clergymen, physicians, and medical quacks. Delbourgo sometimessucceeds in connecting these views on electricity with othercultural and political ideas of the time. Not primarily aboutthe history of science, this book is more about cultural andpopular intellectual history. The |
