The taming of the ray : electric fish research in the enlightenment from John Walsh to Alessandro Volta

xiv, 221 p.

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  • Foreword
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  • Chapter one - The journey
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  • Chapter two - La Rochelle and the Isle de Ré: a day by day chronicle of an intense season of experiments
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  • Chapter three - After La Rochelle: Walsh and Cavendish
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  • Chapter four - Alessandro Volta: from electric fish to the "artificial electric organ"
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  • Tavole
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  • Bibliography
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  ISBN: 8822252489

  Permalink: https://digital.casalini.it/8822252489

  SERIES

  Biblioteca di Nuncius. Studi e testi / Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza, Firenze ; 48
  

  DISCIPLINES

  • Cold-blooded vertebrates. Fishes
  • Electricity and electronics
  • Zoology

  SUBJECTS HEADINGS

  • Electric fishes -- Research
  • Electric organs in fishes -- Research