Article ID: CBB000051443

Forums of validation and forms of knowledge: The magical rhetoric of Otto von Guericke's sulfur globe (1993)

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Description On von Guericke's electrical display, using a sulfur globe. “This essay will be an exploration of the rhetoric of his account of the display to see what kind of an event he thought he was creating and the rhetorical world his account was part of. Particular attention will be given to the socio-political-intellectual world of magic.”


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Authors & Contributors
Pumfrey, Stephen
Krafft, Fritz A.
Jasiński, Maciej
Sander, Christoph
Reeves, Eileen A.
Piccolino, Marco
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History
Perspectives on Science
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Publishers
Otto-von-Guericke-Gesellschaft
Kluwer Academic
Harrassowitz
Concepts
Electricity; magnetism
Telegraphy
Action at a distance
Refraction, astronomical
Comets; meteors; meteorites
Electrophysiology
People
Guericke, Otto von
Schott, Gaspar
Pascal, Blaise
Gilbert, William
Galilei, Galileo
Boyle, Robert
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
19th century
Places
Germany
France
British Isles
Rome (Italy)
Paris (France)
Great Britain
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