Article ID: CBB000932660

Alessandro Volta and the Politics of Pictures (2009)

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An astute diplomat, Alessandro Volta secured the patronage of Napoleon Bonaparte to promote his rise to fame as an electrical expert. Reciprocally, politicians helped their own causes by presenting him as a national as well as a scientific figurehead.

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Authors & Contributors
Bevilacqua, Fabio
Fregonese, Lucio
Bret, Patrice
Cipriani, Giovanni
Finger, Stanley
Grünbaum, Branko
Journals
American Mathematical Monthly
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Cartographica Helvetica
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Gesnerus
Publishers
Brill
Florida State University
Princeton University Press
Unicopli
Università degli Studi di Pavia
Università Hoepli
Concepts
Electricity; magnetism
Physics
Medicine
Cartography
Correspondence and corresponding
Imperialism
People
Napoleon I, Emperor of France
Volta, Alessandro
Galvani, Luigi
Avogadro, Amedeo
Blagden, Sir Charles
Brugnatelli, Luigi Valentino
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
Enlightenment
Places
France
Italy
Egypt
Great Britain
Geneva (Switzerland)
Austria
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