Animal Electricity Or The Electric Science
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Author |
: Robert B. Campenot |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2016-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674495586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674495586 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animal Electricity by : Robert B. Campenot
Like all cellular organisms humans run on electricity. Cells work like batteries: slight imbalances of electric charge across cell membranes, caused by ions moving in and out of cells, result in sensation, movement, awareness, and thinking—the things we associate with being alive. Robert Campenot offers an accessible overview of animal electricity.
Author |
: James S. Olcott |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 1844 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89042919654 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animal Electricity ; Or, The Electric Science by : James S. Olcott
Author |
: Marco Piccolino |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 399 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199782161 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199782164 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shocking Frogs by : Marco Piccolino
"... 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 years of intense experimental work, Galvani's milestone achievement concluded a thousand-year scientific search, in a field long dominated by the antiquated beliefs of classical science. Besides laying the grounds for the development of the modern neurosciences, Galvani's discovery also brought to light an invention that would forever change humankind's everyday life: the electric battery of Alessandro Volta. In an accessible style, written for specialists and general readers alike, Shocking Frogs retraces the steps of both scientific discoveries, starting with the initial hypotheses of the Enlightenment on the involvement of electricity in life processes. So doing, it also reveals the inconsistency of the many stereotypes that an uncritical cultural tradition has imparted to the legacies of Galvani and Volta, and proposes a decidedly new image of these monumental figures.
Author |
: Marcello Pera |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2014-07-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400862498 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400862493 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ambiguous Frog by : Marcello Pera
How do ideas become accepted by the scientific community? How and why do scientists choose among empirically equivalent theories? In this pathbreaking book translated from the Italian, Marcello Pera addresses these questions by exploring the politics, rhetoric, scientific practices, and metaphysical assumptions that entered into the famous Galvani-Volta controversy of the late eighteenth century. This lively debate erupted when two scientists, each examining the muscle contractions of a dissected frog in contact with metal, came up with opposing but experimentally valid explanations of the phenomenon. Luigi Galvani, a doctor and physiologist, believed that he had discovered animal electricity (electrical body fluid existing naturally in a state of disequilibrium), while the physicist Alessandro Volta attributed the contractions to ordinary physical electricity. Beginning with the electrical concepts understood by scientists in the 1790s, Pera traces the careers of Galvani and Volta and explains their laboratory procedures. He shows that their controversy derived from two basic, irreducible interpretations of the proper nature of a common domain: Galvani saw the frog phenomenon as the work of biological organs, Volta as that of a physical apparatus. The initial preference for Volta's theory, maintains Pera, depended not on clear-cut methodological rules, but on a dialectical dispute for which the renowned physicist was better equipped, partly because he shared the dominant metaphysical views of his time. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author |
: Emil Du Bois-Reymond |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 1852 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:590703698 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Animal Electricity: by : Emil Du Bois-Reymond
Author |
: Eusebio Valli |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2009-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1104746409 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781104746407 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Experiments on Animal Electricity: With Their Application to Physiology (1793) by : Eusebio Valli
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author |
: William J. Turkel |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2013-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421409818 |
ISBN-13 |
: 142140981X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spark from the Deep by : William J. Turkel
How encounters with strongly electric fish informed our grasp of electricity. Spark from the Deep tells the story of how human beings came to understand and use electricity by studying the evolved mechanisms of strongly electric fish. These animals have the ability to shock potential prey or would-be predators with high-powered electrical discharges. William J. Turkel asks completely fresh questions about the evolutionary, environmental, and historical aspects of people’s interest in electric fish. Stimulated by painful encounters with electric catfish, torpedos, and electric eels, people learned to harness the power of electric shock for medical therapies and eventually developed technologies to store, transmit, and control electricity. Now we look to these fish as an inspiration for engineering new sensors, computer interfaces, autonomous undersea robots, and energy-efficient batteries.
Author |
: Rudolf F. Graf |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 1973-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486229508 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486229505 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Safe and Simple Electrical Experiments by : Rudolf F. Graf
Illustrated directions for experiments with static electricity, magnetism, current electricity, and electromagnetism.
Author |
: Eusebio Valli |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 1793 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0019619993 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Experiments on Animal Electricity by : Eusebio Valli
Author |
: Frances Ashcroft |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 367 |
Release |
: 2012-09-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393089547 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393089541 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body by : Frances Ashcroft
"This is a wonderful book. Frances Ashcroft has a rare gift for making difficult subjects accessible and fascinating." —Bill Bryson, author of The Body: A Guide for Occupants What happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie in the electrical signals constantly traveling through our bodies, driving our thoughts, our movements, and even the beating of our hearts. The history of how scientists discovered the role of electricity in the human body is a colorful one, filled with extraordinary personalities, fierce debates, and brilliant experiments. Moreover, present-day research on electricity and ion channels has created one of the most exciting fields in science, shedding light on conditions ranging from diabetes and allergies to cystic fibrosis, migraines, and male infertility. With inimitable wit and a clear, fresh voice, award-winning researcher Frances Ashcroft weaves together compelling real-life stories with the latest scientific findings, giving us a spectacular account of the body electric.