Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination

By Kieran M. Murphy

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271086068
• ISBN13: 9780271086064
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"