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Article: Feedback loop: a review essay on the public sphere, pop culture, and the early-modern sciences.(A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America; Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France)(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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James Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 2006. 367 pp. $29.95 US (cloth).
Michael R. Lynn, Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France. Studies in Early Modern European History. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006. 177 pp. $80.00 US (cloth).
In the early nineteenth century, the celebrated British electrician Michael Faraday repeated his electromagnetic experiments for the amusement of gentlemanly auditors at London's young Royal Institution. Faraday openly revealed what was already affirmed by ...