KNOBS OR POINTS? Is lightning natural or divine? Opinion split royalists and republicans.

GEORGE III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820; COURTS & courtiers; PANTHEON (Rome, Italy); LIGHTNING; ELECTRIC discharges

The article focuses on fashionable artist staged a spectacular display in front of George III and a few selected courtiers gathered together inside London's Pantheon. It mentions effective protection against electrical devastation and coiled wire were strung through the Pantheon to help simulate the effects of lightning. It also mentions George III proclaimed that the results ‘are so plain they would convince the apple-women.