@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7zvpnf.8,
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zvpnf.8},
 abstract = {Who knows what particular examples old Aristotle had in mind when he said that science begins with wonder. Electricity was almost certainly not one of them. Not that the philosopher was unacquainted with the properties of amber—or, as it was called in his language, ἤλεκτρον. By the time of Thales of Miletus (sixth century b.c.)—and possibly earlier—it was known that this stone, if rubbed even just with a dry hand, behaved oddly like a magnet, attracting bits of straw, dry leaves, and other light bodies. But, although familiar, these properties had never been methodically investigated. Nor had},
 author = {Jonathan Mandelbaum},
 bookauthor = {Marcello Pera},
 booktitle = {The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity},
 pages = {3--37},
 publisher = {Princeton University Press},
 title = {Electricity, the Science of Wonders},
 year = {1992}
}