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Revealing sparks: John Wesley and the religious utility of electrical healingPaola Bertucci
CIS, Dipartimento di Filosofia, University of Bologna, Via Zamboni 38, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Br J Hist Sci 39:341-62. 2006....
Sparks in the dark: the attraction of electricity in the eighteenth centuryPaola Bertucci
CIS Dipartimento di Filosofia, Via Zamboni 38, Bologna, Italy
Endeavour 31:88-93. 2007..Not only did the action, the machinery and the ambience of such displays match the culture of the libertine century, it also provided new material for erotic literature...
Sparking controversy: Jean Antoine Nollet and medical electricity south of the AlpsPaola Bertucci
Nuncius 20:153-87. 2005..I also analyze the reasons for Nollet's silence over the involvement of the Istituto delle Scienze in the controversy and the relevance of medical electricity in the wider context of contemporary electrical experimental philosophy...
