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| Titel: |
Visual Images in Luigi Galvani's Path to Animal Electricity |
| Auteur: |
Piccolino, Marco |
| Verschenen in: |
Journal of the history of the neurosciences |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 17 (2008) nr. 3 pagina's 335-348 |
| Jaar: |
2008-07 |
| Inhoud: |
The scientific endeavor that led Luigi Galvani to his hypothesis of “animal electricity,” i.e., of an electricity present in a condition of disequilibrium between the interior and the exterior of excitable animal fibers, is reviewed here with particular emphasis to the role played by visual images in Galvani's path of discovery. In 1791 Galvani formulated his model of neuromuscular physiology on the base of the image of a muscle and a nerve fiber together as in a “minute animal Leyden jar.” This was the last instance of a series of physical models that accompanied Galvani's experimental efforts in the search of a theory capable of accounting for the electric nature of nerve conduction in spite of the many objections formulated in the eighteenth century against a possible role of electricity in animal physiology. |
| Uitgever: |
Psychology Press |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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