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From time immemorial, thunder and lightning were seen as a wrathful Deity's instruments of punishment. But then, in 1752, came Benjamin Franklin's paradigm-shifting invention of the lightning rod, and the way we view God and nature was changed forever.
Contents
Introduction: Lightning after Franklin
1. A New Invention
2. The Introduction of the Lightning Rod in the Netherlands
3. Eighteenth-Century Physical Theories on Thunderstorms
4. Official Religion
5. Marginal and Marginalised Religious Reactions
6. Intermezzo: Electrical Nature? The Animated Nature of Theosophy
7. Thunderstorms and Electricity in Poetry, Music, and Painting
8. By Way of Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Illustration credits, Index of Names



