par Collart, Muriel 
Editeur scientifique Vasak, Anouchka;Glaudes, Pierre
Référence Les nuages, du tournant des Lumières au crépuscule du Romantisme (1760-1780), Hermann, Paris, page (400)
Publication Publié, 2017-09-20
Editeur scientifique Vasak, Anouchka;Glaudes, Pierre
Référence Les nuages, du tournant des Lumières au crépuscule du Romantisme (1760-1780), Hermann, Paris, page (400)
Publication Publié, 2017-09-20
Publication dans des actes
| Résumé : | This article examines experimental attempts to simulate clouds in the eighteenth century and their role in the emerging science of atmospheric electricity. Following the discovery of the electrical nature of lightning, scientists sought not only to understand atmospheric phenomena but also to intervene in them. Through a series of experiments involving artificial clouds—conducted by figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Wilson, Edward Nairne and Antoine Quinquet—natural philosophers attempted to reproduce lightning, precipitation and other meteorological processes in controlled environments. These simulations, often staged in public scientific contexts such as the Royal Society, reveal how experimental practice reshaped conceptions of clouds, electricity and human agency over weather. Artificial clouds thus became both epistemic models and instruments for imagining the possible control of atmospheric phenomena. |
