Shocking Frogs: Galvani, Volta, and the Electric Origins of Neuroscience
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199782164
ISBN13:9780199782161
Release Date:November 2013
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:400 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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