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Author Piccolino, Marco.

Title Shocking frogs : Galvani, Volta, and the electric origins of neuroscience / Marco Piccolino, Marco Bresadola ; translated by Nicholas Wade.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography 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.
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Language Translated from the Italian.
Subject Galvani, Luigi, 1737-1798.
Galvani, Luigi, 1737-1798.
Volta, Alessandro, 1745-1827.
Volta, Alessandro, 1745-1827.
Electrophysiology -- History.
Electrophysiology.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Bresadola, Marco.
Added Title Rane, torpedini e scintille. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014182120
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)
0199782210 (electronic book)
9780199782161
0199782164 (hardback)