Article ID: CBB000012450

Early electricity between chemistry and physics: The simultaneous itineraries of Francis Hauksbee, Samuel Wall, and Pierre Polinière (1981)

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Description Argues that investigations into electricity grew out of two coexisting and partly overlapping research programs--one centered on a physical theory of the production of light, the other on chemical ideas concerning light and fire.


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Authors & Contributors
Pence, David Evan
Wesner, Samantha Stinson
Friedland, Paul
Suay, Juan Miguel
Teira, David
Simili, Raffaella
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Scientometrics
Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise
Revue de Synthèse
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
Editrice Morcelliana
Random House
Columbia University Press
Cornell University
Concepts
Electricity; magnetism
Experiments and experimentation
Physics
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Leyden jar
Ecdotics; source study (methodology)
People
Franklin, Benjamin
Kleist, Ewald Georg von
Galvani, Luigi
Beccaria, Giambattista
Wilson, Benjamin
Wesley, John
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
20th century, early
Places
Italy
France
British Isles
Great Britain
North America
Institutions
Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona
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