| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Italian |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Galvani, Luigi, 1737-1798. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82254793
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Volta, Alessandro, 1745-1827. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80149535
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Galvani, Luigi, 1737-1798. fast (OCoLC)fst00126348 |
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Volta, Alessandro, 1745-1827. fast (OCoLC)fst00064096 |
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Electrophysiology -- History
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1600s
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Electrophysiology -- history
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MEDICAL -- Neuroscience.
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MEDICAL -- Physiology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
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Electrophysiology.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bresadola, Marco
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| ISBN |
9780199782215 |
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0199782210 |
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