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Shocking Frogs: Galvani, Volta, and the Electric Origins of Neuroscience

Shocking Frogs: Galvani, Volta, and the Electric Origins of Neuroscience

Piccolino, Marco
Bresadola, Marco

Hardcover

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 0199782164
ISBN13: 9780199782161
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 1 2013
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.98
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
... and still we could never suppose that fortune were to be so friendly to us, such as to allow us to be perhaps the first in handling, as it were, the electricity concealed in nerves, in extracting it from nerves, and, in some way, in putting it under everyone's eyes.

With these words, Luigi Galvani announced to the world in 1791 his discovery that nervous conduction and muscle excitation are electrical phenomena. The result of more than years of intense experimental work, Galvani's milestone achievement concluded a thousand-year scientific search, in a field long dominated by the antiquated beliefs of classical science. Besides laying the grounds for the development of the modern neurosciences, Galvani's discovery also brought to light an invention that would forever change humankind's everyday life: the electric battery of Alessandro Volta.

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