Book ID: CBB000650187

The Taming of the Ray: Electric Fish Research in the Enlightenment from John Walsh to Alessandro Volta (2004)

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Piccolino, Marco (Author)


Leo S. Olschki
Publication date: 2004
Language: English


Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: xiv + 221 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index

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Review Delbourgo, James (2005) Review of "The Taming of the Ray: Electric Fish Research in the Enlightenment from John Walsh to Alessandro Volta". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 438). unapi

Review Mazzarello, Paolo (2005) Review of "The Taming of the Ray: Electric Fish Research in the Enlightenment from John Walsh to Alessandro Volta". Journal of the History of the Neurosciences (p. 177). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Piccolino, Marco
Bresadola, Marco
Cavicchi, Elizabeth
Finger, Stanley
Mills, Allan A.
Barbara, Jean-Gaël
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
Basilisken-Presse
Johns Hopkins University Press
Concepts
Natural history
Fishes
Electricity; magnetism
Electric conductivity
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Experiments and experimentation
People
Faraday, Michael
Galvani, Luigi
Page, Charles Grafton
Volta, Alessandro
Bloch, Marcus Elieser
Canton, John
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
Places
Germany
United States
Africa
Great Britain
Australia
Europe
Institutions
University of Padua
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