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1 online resource : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
"Frogs, Torpedoes, and Sparks: Galvani, Volta, and Animal Electricity is an English translation of Rane, torpedini e scintille. Galvani, Volta e l'elettricità animale (Torino, Italy: Bollati-Boringhieri, 2003)"-- Provided by publisher. |
Contents |
Foreword -- Authors' preface to the Italian edition -- Authors' preface to the English edition -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographical note -- 1. Galvani, Volta and the forgotten electrophysiology -- 2. "Truth and usefulness": medicine and natural philosophy in the eighteenth century -- 3. Animal spirits, vital forces, and electricity: nervous conduction and muscular motion in the eighteenth century -- 4. Artificial electricity, the spark, and the nervous fluid: Galvani's early research on muscular motion -- 5. A "fortunate" discovery: Galvani's theory of animal electricity -- 6. The controversy between Galvani and Volta over animal electricity: the first stage -- 7. The controversy between Galvani and Volta over animal electricity: the second stage -- 8. The electrophysiological work of Alessandro Volta -- 9. From Galvani to Hodgkin and beyond: the central problem of electrophysiology in the last two centuries -- 10. Neuromuscular excitability: the modern explanation -- 11. Concluding remarks. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
Translated from the Italian. |
Subject |
Galvani, Luigi, 1737-1798.
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Galvani, Luigi, 1737-1798. |
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Volta, Alessandro, 1745-1827.
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Volta, Alessandro, 1745-1827. |
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Electrophysiology -- History.
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Electrophysiology. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Author |
Bresadola, Marco.
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Added Title |
Rane, torpedini e scintille. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014182120
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Galvani, Volta, and the electric origins of neuroscience |
Other Form: |
Print version: Piccolino, Marco. Rane, torpedini e scintille. English. Shocking frogs 9780199782161 (DLC) 2012046275 (OCoLC)827841364 |
ISBN |
9780199782215 (electronic book) |
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0199782210 (electronic book) |
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9780199782161 |
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0199782164 (hardback) |
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