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«Вещество, которое не поймать руками». Восприятие электричества в период с середины XVIII в. по середину XIX в.

Диалог со временем. 2020. № 72. С. 165–180.
Nikiforova N.

Basing on the materials of Russian scientific, literary, philosophical, journalist and poetic texts, the article looks at the ways electricity was described scientifically and how electrical metaphors were used in non-scientific texts from mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century. Natural science was not free from romanticized and theological ideas, while literature and journalist texts put scientific concepts to artistic imagination.  The ideas about electricity were projected onto various spheres of life, and electricity itself became a trope to describe inexplicable phenomena, such as national feeling or the feeling of love.

Research target: History and Archeology
Priority areas: humanitarian
Language: Russian
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Keywords: электричествоmetaphorметафораelectricityanalogyаналогияgalvanismelectric circuitelectrical discourseгальванизмэлектрическая цепьэлектрический дискурс
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Spatial Factor in Theoretical Field of Humanities and Social Sciences (2019)
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