GALVANI, Luigi (1737 – 1798)
1737 – 1798
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1791 CE
#593
De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius.
In the course of his experiments on irritable responses caused by static electricity applied to frog muscles, Galvani produced electric current from the contact of two different metals in a moist environment. Galvani …
1794 CE
#594.1
Dell’uso e dell’attività dell arco conduttore nelle contrazioni dei muscoli.
The first account of Galvani’s electrical experiments without the presence of metals, in which he demonstrated the presence of electrical energy in living tissue by showing that convulsions in frog nerve-muscle …