Volume 5

Contents

Preface

Editors and Authors

Abbreviations

From "Electricity Minus" to "-E": Attempts to Introduce the Concept of Negative Magnitude into Worldly Wisdom

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Experimental Physics from the spirit of Aphorism
The Shocking Bag: Medical Electricity in mid-18th-Century London

Electricity in Portugal in Volta's Times

A Shock to the Public: Itinerant Lecturers and Instruments Makers as Practitioners of Electricity in the German Enlightenment (1740-1800)


In the wake of Volta's Challenge: the Electrolysis Theory of Theodor Grotthuss, 1805