Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination (AnthropoScene)

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.

• | Author: Kieran M. Murphy
• | Publisher: Penn State University Press
• | Publication Date: April 02, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 027108605X
• | ISBN-13: 9780271086057