Electromagnetism and the metonymic imagination
Auteur :
Murphy, Kieran M.
Éditeur :
Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN :
9780271086064
Date de publication :
31 mars 2021
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,3 cm
Poids :
334 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Illustrates how the discovery of electromagnetism in 1820 not only led to technological inventions, such as the dynamo and the telegraph, but also legitimized modes of reasoning that manifested a sharper ability to perceive how metonymic relations could reveal the order of things.