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Volta : science and culture in the Age of Enlightenment / Giuliano Pancaldi.
LIBRA QC515.V8 P36 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pancaldi, Giuliano.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Volta, Alessandro, 1745-1827.
- Volta, Alessandro.
- Physicists--Italy--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Italy.
- Electricity--History.
- Electricity.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 381 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Giuliano Pancaldi sets us within the cosmopolitan cultures of Enlightenment Europe to tell the story of Alessandro Volta--the brilliant man whose name is forever attached to electromotive force.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-365) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691096856
- OCLC:
- 50072163
- Online:
- Publisher description
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