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The Ambiguous Frog : The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity /
How do ideas become accepted by the scientific community? How and why do scientists choose among empirically equivalent theories? In this pathbreaking book translated from the Italian, Marcello Pera addresses these questions by exploring the politics, rhetoric, scientific practices, and metaphysical...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1992]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword / Cohen, I. Bernard
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Electricity, the Science of Wonders
- Chapter 2. Volta's and Galvani's Scientific Training
- Chapter 3. Galvani's Experiments and Theory
- Chapter 4. Volta's First Reaction
- Chapter 5. The Crucial Experiments
- Chapter 6. The Pile
- Notes
- References
- Name Index