Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination

by Kieran M. Murphy

Book Overview

How does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these perennial questions by showing how they have been closely tied to the history of electromagnetism.

The discovery in 1820 of a mysterious relationship between electricity and magnetism led not only to technological inventions--such as the dynamo and telegraph, which ushered in the "electric age"--but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271086068
• ISBN13: 9780271086064
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"