Luigi Galvani ( gal-VAH-nee, US also gahl-, Italian: [luˈiːdʒi ɡalˈvaːni]; Latin: Aloysius Galvanus; 9 September 1737 – 4 December 1798) was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher who studied animal electricity. In 1780, using a frog, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark. This was an early study of bioelectricity, following experiments by John Walsh and Hugh Williamson. (From Wikipedia) More about Luigi Galvani:
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5 additional books about Luigi Galvani in the extended shelves: Istoria del galvanismo in Italia, o, Sia della contesa fra Volta e Galvani e decisione ricavata dai fatti : esposti dai due partiti (All'Insegna dell'Ancora ..., 1817), by Giovacchino Carradori (page images at HathiTrust)
Elogio storico di Luigi Galvani (A S. Tommaso d'Aquino, 1802), by J. L. Alibert and Bern Dibner (page images at HathiTrust)
Mesmer, Galvani et les théologiens; lettres a quleques contemporains. (Wouters, 1845), by Louis François de Paule Marie Joseph Robiano de Borsbeek (page images at HathiTrust)
Electricity for young people. (New York, 1907), by Tudor Jenks (page images at HathiTrust)
Experiments and Observations Relative to the Influence Lately Discovered by M. Galvani and Commonly Called Animal Electricity, by Richard Fowler (Gutenberg ebook)
Books by Luigi Galvani: Additional books by Luigi Galvani in the extended shelves: Galvani, Luigi, 1737-1798: Abhandlung über die kräfte der electricität bei der muskelbewegung (W. Engelmann, 1894), also by Arthur Jochim von Oettinger (page images at HathiTrust) Galvani, Luigi, 1737-1798: Aloysii Galvani ... De viribus eletricitatis in motu musculari commentarius cum Joannis Aldini dissertatione et notis. Accesserunt epistolae ad animalis eletricitatis theoriam pertinentes. Mutinae, apud Societatem typographicam, 1792. (W. Junk, 1925), also by Giovanni Aldini (page images at HathiTrust) Galvani, Luigi, 1737-1798: Experiments and observations relative to the influence lately discovered by M. Galvani and commonly called animal electricity. (Printed for T. Duncan: [etc., etc.], 1793), also by Richard Fowler (page images at HathiTrust) Galvani, Luigi, 1737-1798: Note nell'interesse di Lucia Cavina in Venturini e di Pietro ed Enrica Nicolin nella causa penale contro Galvani Luigi e Trevisani Guido ... imputati del reato di cui all'art. 434 del Codice penale. (P. Cuppini, 1908), also by Giovanni Venturini, Lucia Cavina Venturini, Aristide Venturini, Guido Trevisani, Pietro Nicolin, Enrica Nicolin, and Italy. Pretura (Lugo) (page images at HathiTrust) Galvani, Luigi, 1737-1798: Opere edite ed inedite del professore Luigi Galvani raccolte e pubblicate per cura dell' Accademia delle scienze dell' Istituto di Bologna. (Tip. di E. dall' Olmo, 1841), also by Bassiano Carminati, Giuseppe Venturoli, Silvestro Gherardi, and Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (page images at HathiTrust)
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