De Viribus Electricitatis In Motu Musculari Commentarius Bound With Aldini Giovanni De Animali

by Luigi Galvani

$195,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Bologna: Press of the Academy of Sciences, 1791. First edition — the separately issued offprint, distributed before the journal volume appeared and therefore the true first edition — of the paper “which inaugurated the modern epoch in electricity” Evans : Galvani’s report that the leg of a dissected frog contracts when nerve and muscle are joined through two different metals, the animal itself serving as the

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