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Shocking frogs : Galvani, Volta, and the electric origins of neuroscience /
"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)"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.