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Kieran Murphy

    Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination
    The Essence of Invention
    • The Essence of Invention

      Medicine and the Joy of Creativity

      • 296 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      The book explores the transformative impact of innovative individuals in medical science, highlighting their creativity, tenacity, and determination. It emphasizes the importance of fostering a culture of collaboration and creativity, which enables these inventors to thrive and drive advancements in the field. Through insightful narratives, it showcases how the right environment can unleash the potential of visionary thinkers in medicine.

      The Essence of Invention
    • Illustrates how the discovery of electromagnetism in 1820 not only led to technological inventions, such as the dynamo and the telegraph, but also legitimized modes of reasoning that manifested a sharper ability to perceive how metonymic relations could reveal the order of things.

      Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination