Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1. THE MAKING OF A NATURAL PHILOSOPHER: From Amateur, to Expert, to Public Servant 7
8. Chapter 2. ENLIGHTENMENT SCIENCE SOUTH OF THE ALPS: The Italian Scientific Community in the Age of Volta 44
9. Chapter 3. THE ELECTROPHORUS: Theory, Instrument Design, and the Social Uses of Scientific Apparatus 73
10. Chapter 4. VOLTA’S SCIENCE OF ELECTRICITY: Conception, Laboratory Work, and Public Recognition 110
11. Chapter 5. THE COSMOPOLITAN NETWORK: Volta and Communication among Experts in Late Enlightenment Europe 146
12. Chapter 6. THE BATTERY: Invention, Instrumentalism, and Competitive Imitation 178
13. Chapter 7. APPROPRIATING INVENTION: The Reception of the Voltaic Battery in Europe 211
14. Chapter 8. THE SCIENTIST AS HERO: Volta and the Uses of Past Science in the Industrial Era 257
15. Chapter 9. CONCLUSION: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND CONTINGENCY: Enlightenment Legacies 273
16. Notes 291
17. Bibliography 337
18. Index 367