Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… State of Electricity (1769), that electrical experiments ‘furnish the most pleasing and surprising appearances for the entertainment of one’s friends’. He declared that the pleasure of viewing such experiments ‘bears a considerable … in which witnesses and hands-on participants were assigned the more passive role of spectators at occasions of mass entertainment. 16 . Jan Golinski, ‘From Calcutta to London: James Dinwiddie’s Galvanic Circuits,’ in Bernard Lightman, …
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