Book ID: CBB000110057

The Matter of Motion and Galvani's Frogs. (2000)

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Williams, B. Innes (Author)


Rana House


Publication Date: 2000
Edition Details: Foreword by A. Rupert Hall
Physical Details: 298 pp., frontis., illus., figs., apps., index
Language: English

Description Surveys the history of muscular motion from Greeks to Galvani. Second half of book focusses on Galvani's physiology.


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Review Bulloch, Andrew G. M. (2003) Review of "The Matter of Motion and Galvani's Frogs.". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences (p. 110). unapi

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