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

xiv, 221 p.

• Información

  ISBN: 8822252489

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

  COLECCIÓN

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

  MATERIAS

  • Vertebrados de sangre fría. Peces
  • Electricidad y electrónica
  • Zoology

  ENCABEZAMIENTOS DE MATERIA

  • Electric fishes -- Research
  • Electric organs in fishes -- Research
• En este volumen

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