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Hindsight, tradition and national style in the pre-history of the Leyden Jar
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Bycroft, Michael (2019) Hindsight, tradition and national style in the pre-history of the Leyden Jar. Isis, 110 (2). pp. 317-320. doi:10.1086/703411
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/703411
Abstract
The Leyden jar surprised natural philosophers when it was invented in 1746 because it showed the paradoxical behaviour of glass. But similar experiments had been done before, such as those by the Frenchman Charles Dufay. Why was Dufay oblivious to the paradox? The answer involves three kinds of historical explanation that are controversial but fruitful: hindsight, tradition, and national styles.
Item Type: | Journal Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Electricity -- History, Electromagnetism -- History, Capacitors -- history, Science -- History, Electricity—Early works to 1850 | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Isis | ||||||
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0021-1753 | ||||||
Official Date: | June 2019 | ||||||
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Volume: | 110 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 317-320 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1086/703411 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | © 2019 by The Author. Accepted for publication by Isis on 21/03/2019 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 March 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 July 2020 | ||||||
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