عنوان

Shocking frogs :

شابک

0199782210 (electronic bk.)

شابک

9780199782215 (electronic bk.)

شابک اشتباه

9780199782161

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Shocking frogs :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Galvani, Volta, and the electric origins of neuroscience /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Marco Piccolino, Marco Bresadola ; translated by Nicholas Wade

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource :

ساير جزييات

illustrations

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword -- Authors' preface to the Italian edition -- Authors' preface to the English edition -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Galvani, Volta and the forgotten electrophysiology -- 2. "Truth and usefulness": medicine and natural philosophy in the eighteenth century -- 2.1 Galvani's education in Bologna: the University, the Institute of Sciences, and the hospitals -- 2.2. Galvani's professional career -- 2.3 Galvani's early anatomo-physiological investigation -- 3. Animal spirits, vital forces, and electricity: nervous conduction and muscular motion in the eighteenth century -- 3.1 The debate on Hallerian irritability -- 3.2 The study of electricity in the eighteenth century -- 3.3. "Artificial" electricity, "natural" electricity and their role in the human body -- 3.4. Electric fish -- 4. Artificial electricity, the spark, and the nervous fluid: Galvani's early research on muscular motion -- 4.1 The beginning of electrophysiological experimentation -- 4.2. A "problematic" turn: the observation of contractions at a distance -- 4.3. Galvani's Saggio sulla forza nervea of 1782 -- 5. A "fortunate" discovery: Galvani's theory of animal electricity -- 5.1. The study of "airs" in relation to the living organism -- 5.2. The effects of atmospheric electricity on muscular motion and the discovery of metal arcs -- 5.3. The model of the muscle as an animal Leyden jar -- 5.4. The final elaboration of the theory of animal electricity -- 6. The controversy between Galvani and Volta over animal electricity: the first stage -- 6.1. Galvani's work in the scientific culture of the late eighteenth century -- 6.2 Volta's early research on animal electricity: quantification, muscular physiology, and the "special theory of contact electricity" -- 6.3. Galvani's Trattato dell'arco conduttore: the criticism against Volta and the notion of a circuit of animal electricity -- 7. The controversy between Galvani and Volta over animal electricity: the second stage -- 7.1. Volta's "general theory of contact electricity" -- 7.2. Galvani's reply to Volta's criticisms and the1797 Memorie sulla elettricità animale -- 7.3 Galvani's research on electric fish and the various forms of electricity -- 7.4 The conclusion of the Galvani-Volta controversy -- 8. The electrophysiological work of Alessandro Volta -- 8.1 Volta and life sciences -- 8.2 Volta's research on sensations -- 8.3 Sensation and muscular motion in Volta's "chain" experiments -- 8.4 Volta's research on electric fishes and the invention of the electric battery -- 9. From Galvani to Hodgkin and beyond: the central problem of electrophysiology in the last two centuries -- 9.1 Measuring animal electricity -- 9.2 Nervous conduction: propagated electric signal and the firing of a train of gun-powder -- 9.3. The involvement of animal electricity in nerve conduction demonstrated -- 10. Neuromuscular excitability: the modern explanation -- 10.1 Cell membrane and ions: a machine generating electric potentials -- 10.2. The electric mechanism of nerve conduction and muscle excitation -- 11. Concluding remarks -- Bibliography

بدون عنوان

8

متن يادداشت

"Frogs, Torpedoes, and Sparks: Galvani, Volta, and Animal Electricity is an English translation of Rane, torpedini e scintille. Galvani, Volta e l'elettricità animale (Torino, Italy: Bollati-Boringhieri, 2003)"--

عنوان

Shocking frogs

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780199782161

عنوان قراردادي

Rane, torpedini e scintille.

زبان(وقتي جزئي از عنوان قراردادي باشد)

English

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

Galvani, Volta, and the electric origins of neuroscience

موضوع مستند نشده

Electrophysiology-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

MED-- 075000

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI-- 036000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Piccolino, Marco.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Bresadola, Marco.

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Ohio Library and Information Network.

تاريخ عمليات

20150219050732.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y