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Introduction 1

Part Ⅰ Illuminations：The Light of Reason 9

Chapter 1：Interpretations 15

Chapter 2：Electricity and Enlightenment 19

Part Ⅱ Shocking Inventions：Instruments 35

Chapter 1：Robert Boyle and the Air-pump 43

Chapter 2：Francis Hauksbee and the Electrical Machine 53

Chapter 3：Stephen Gray and the Charity Boy 58

Chapter 4：Pieter van Musschenbroek and the Leyden Jar 69

Part Ⅲ Lightning Cures：Applications 83

Chapter 1：Benjamin Franklin 91

Chapter 2：Knobs or Points？ 102

Chapter 3：The Business of Medicine 110

Chapter 4：Therapeutic Shocks 122

Part Ⅳ Sparks of Imagination：Theories 133

Chapter 1：Problems 139

Chapter 2：Fluids and Atmospheres 149

Chapter 3：Theological Aethers 155

Chapter 4：Measurement and Mathematics 164

Part Ⅴ The Flow of Life：Current Electricity 175

Chapter 1：Henry Cavendish and the Torpedo 182

Chapter 2：Luigi Galvani and his Frogs 192

Chapter 3：Alessandro Volta and his Pile 201

Chapter 4：Resuscitation 215

Further Reading 222

Notes 224