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In The Culture of Punishment

Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination Linda A. Dimeff and policy makers who areHow does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these perennial questions by showing how they have been closely tied to the history of electromagnetism. The discovery in 1820 of a mysterious relation between electricity and magnetism led not only to technological inventions such as the dynamo and telegraph that ushered in the electric age, but also to a profound