Shocking History of Electric Fishes: From Ancient Epochs to the Birth of Modern Neurophysiology
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This book looks at how three kinds of strongly electric fishes literally became "electrical", and how they helped to change the sciences and medicine. These fishes are the flat torpedo rays common to the Mediterranean, the electric catfishes of Africa, and an "eel" from South America. The discovery of the electrical nature of these fishes in the second half of the 18th century was the starting point of the two fundamental advances in the sciences:...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:B00DPODUJQ
ISBN13:9780195366723
Release Date:August 2011
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:496 Pages
Weight:3.85 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 8.7" x 11.0"
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