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NT |
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eng |
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rda |
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pn |
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NT |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780199782215 |
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| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
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ita |
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| Classification number |
QP341 |
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.S563 2013 |
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| Holding library |
NTA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Piccolino, Marco. |
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Author |
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| Title |
Shocking frogs : |
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Galvani, Volta, and the electric origins of neuroscience / |
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Marco Piccolino, Marco Bresadola ; translated by Nicholas Wade. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Oxford : |
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Oxford University Press, |
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(c)2013. |
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1 online resource. |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
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computer |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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online resource |
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cr |
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rdacarrier |
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data file |
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rda |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| 520 0# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"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)"-- |
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Foreword -- |
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Authors' preface to the Italian edition -- |
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Authors' preface to the English edition -- |
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Acknowledgments -- |
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1. Galvani, Volta and the forgotten electrophysiology -- |
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2. "Truth and usefulness": medicine and natural philosophy in the eighteenth century -- |
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2.1 Galvani's education in Bologna: the University, the Institute of Sciences, and the hospitals -- |
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2.2. Galvani's professional career -- |
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2.3 Galvani's early anatomo-physiological investigation -- |
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3. Animal spirits, vital forces, and electricity: nervous conduction and muscular motion in the eighteenth century -- |
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3.1 The debate on Hallerian irritability -- |
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3.2 The study of electricity in the eighteenth century -- |
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3.3. "Artificial" electricity, "natural" electricity and their role in the human body -- |
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3.4. Electric fish -- |
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4. Artificial electricity, the spark, and the nervous fluid: Galvani's early research on muscular motion -- |
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4.1 The beginning of electrophysiological experimentation -- |
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4.2. A "problematic" turn: the observation of contractions at a distance -- |
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4.3. Galvani's Saggio sulla forza nervea of 1782 -- |
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5. A "fortunate" discovery: Galvani's theory of animal electricity -- |
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5.1. The study of "airs" in relation to the living organism -- |
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5.2. The effects of atmospheric electricity on muscular motion and the discovery of metal arcs -- |
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5.3. The model of the muscle as an animal Leyden jar -- |
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5.4. The final elaboration of the theory of animal electricity -- |
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6. The controversy between Galvani and Volta over animal electricity: the first stage -- |
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6.1. Galvani's work in the scientific culture of the late eighteenth century -- |
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6.2 Volta's early research on animal electricity: quantification, muscular physiology, and the "special theory of contact electricity" -- |
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6.3. Galvani's Trattato dell'arco conduttore: the criticism against Volta and the notion of a circuit of animal electricity -- |
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7. The controversy between Galvani and Volta over animal electricity: the second stage -- |
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7.1. Volta's "general theory of contact electricity" -- |
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7.2. Galvani's reply to Volta's criticisms and the1797 Memorie sulla elettricità animale -- |
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7.3 Galvani's research on electric fish and the various forms of electricity -- |
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7.4 The conclusion of the Galvani-Volta controversy -- |
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8. The electrophysiological work of Alessandro Volta -- |
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8.1 Volta and life sciences -- |
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8.2 Volta's research on sensations -- |
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8.3 Sensation and muscular motion in Volta's "chain" experiments -- |
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8.4 Volta's research on electric fishes and the invention of the electric battery -- |
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9. From Galvani to Hodgkin and beyond: the central problem of electrophysiology in the last two centuries -- |
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9.1 Measuring animal electricity -- |
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9.2 Nervous conduction: propagated electric signal and the firing of a train of gun-powder -- |
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9.3. The involvement of animal electricity in nerve conduction demonstrated -- |
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10. Neuromuscular excitability: the modern explanation -- |
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10.1 Cell membrane and ions: a machine generating electric potentials -- |
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10.2. The electric mechanism of nerve conduction and muscle excitation -- |
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11. Concluding remarks -- |
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Bibliography. |
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| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Electrophysiology |
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History. |
| 655 #1 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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Electronic Books. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Bresadola, Marco. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) |
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QP |
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2013 |
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ONLINE |
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Cynthia Snell |
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Cynthia Snell |