De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius

by Luigi Galvani

$195,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Bologna: Instituti Scientiarum, 1791. / First edition, incredibly rare offprint preceding the journal publication, of the paper that “inaugurated the modern epoch in electricity” Evans . Galvani demonstrated that muscular contraction in a frog can be produced by contact between two different metals touching nerve and muscle, interpreting it as the discharge of an “animal electricity.” Volta, repeating the experiments, rejected that

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