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Shocking Frogs - Galvani, Volta, and the Electric Origins of Neuroscience (Hardcover)
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Shocking Frogs - Galvani, Volta, and the Electric Origins of Neuroscience (Hardcover)
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..". 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.
In an accessible style, written for specialists and general readers
alike, Shocking Frogs retraces the steps of both scientific
discoveries, starting with the initial hypotheses of the
Enlightenment on the involvement of electricity in life processes.
So doing, it also reveals the inconsistency of the many stereotypes
that an uncritical cultural tradition has imparted to the legacies
of Galvani and Volta, and proposes a decidedly new image of these
monumental figures.
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