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Shocking Frogs

Galvani, Volta, and the Electric Origins of Neuroscience

Szerző: Marco Piccolino, Marco Bresadola

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Oxford University Press Inc

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

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"...and still we could never suppose that fortune were to be so friendly to us, such as to allow us...

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Szerző

Marco Piccolino, Marco Bresadola

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2013

oldal

400

EAN

9780199782161

ISBN

0199782164

Enbook ID

04535958

Kiadó

Oxford University Press Inc

Súly

902

Méretek

245 x 169 x 26

Teljes leírás

"...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.