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The Essential Volta
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Author : Alessandro Volta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-05-10
The Essential Volta written by Alessandro Volta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-10 with categories.
L'identità del fluido elettrico col cosí detto fluido galvanico, vittoriosamente dimostrata con nuove esperienze ed osservazioni. Notes by Alessandro Volta, compiled and edited by Pietro Configliachi.This is a memoir of Alessandro Volta's researches surrounding Galvanism and his discovery of the Voltaic Pile, which he then put to good use in many experiments which had as their aim the identity of this novel electric fluid, of low tension but of great abundance, with the common electric fluid of static origin, derived through friction. Although now over 200 years old, it was written during a seminal moment in the history of science. The seven main articles of this memoir are:ARTICLE I: Of simple Galvanism, or rather of phenomena thus called galvanic, produced by the application of only two or three conductors, or rather differing electric motors.ARTICLE II: Of compound Galvanism, or to better tell it, Voltaism; that is, of the arrays formed by an ordered series of simple Electromotors.ARTICLE III: Of the power which Electromotors have of charging, in the briefest interval of time, and to a tension equal to their own, any Leyden jar whatever, or battery [of jars]; and to hence have these jars give shocks proportional to such charges, and to their respective capacities.ARTICLE IV: Further evaluation of the worthiness of the electric discharges, under the double relation of their intensity, or electrometric tension, and of the quantity of fluid which shapes them, along with various researches in Electrometry.ARTICLE V: On the little conductive virtue of water, maximally pure: through which an electric current, while passing through there, broadens as much as possible, taking beyond the straight path many other paths, however long and oblique.Application of this to the shocks which are had under water, equally from the Torpedoes as from the piles, and from the Leyden jars.ARTICLE VI: Of the effects which, besides the shocks, the Electromotors produce upon the animal organs, and especially upon those of the senses.ARTICLE VII: Continuation of the preceding article: or rather, special observations surrounding a few circumstances which modify the strength and the quality of the impressions conveyed by the Electromotors upon our organs.
Volta
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Author : Giuliano Pancaldi
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Volta written by Giuliano Pancaldi and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Science categories.
Giuliano Pancaldi sets us within the cosmopolitan cultures of Enlightenment Europe to tell the story of Alessandro Volta--the brilliant man whose name is forever attached to electromotive force. Providing fascinating details, many previously unknown, Pancaldi depicts Volta as an inventor who used his international network of acquaintances to further his quest to harness the power of electricity. This is the story of a man who sought recognition as a natural philosopher and ended up with an invention that would make an everyday marvel of electric lighting. Examining the social and scientific contexts in which Volta operated--as well as Europe's reception of his most famous invention--Volta also offers a sustained inquiry into long-term features of science and technology as they developed in the early age of electricity. Pancaldi considers the voltaic cell, or battery, as a case study of Enlightenment notions and their consequences, consequences that would include the emergence of the "scientist" at the expense of the "natural philosopher." Throughout, Pancaldi highlights the complex intellectual, technological, and social ferment that ultimately led to our industrial societies. In so doing, he suggests that today's supporters and critics of Enlightenment values underestimate the diversity and contingency inherent in science and technology--and may be at odds needlessly. Both an absorbing biography and a study of scientific and technological creativity, this book offers new insights into the legacies of the Enlightenment while telling the remarkable story of the now-ubiquitous battery.
The Ambiguous Frog
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Author : Marcello Pera
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
The Ambiguous Frog written by Marcello Pera and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Science categories.
How do ideas become accepted by the scientific community? How and why do scientists choose among empirically equivalent theories? In this pathbreaking book translated from the Italian, Marcello Pera addresses these questions by exploring the politics, rhetoric, scientific practices, and metaphysical assumptions that entered into the famous Galvani-Volta controversy of the late eighteenth century. This lively debate erupted when two scientists, each examining the muscle contractions of a dissected frog in contact with metal, came up with opposing but experimentally valid explanations of the phenomenon. Luigi Galvani, a doctor and physiologist, believed that he had discovered animal electricity (electrical body fluid existing naturally in a state of disequilibrium), while the physicist Alessandro Volta attributed the contractions to ordinary physical electricity. Beginning with the electrical concepts understood by scientists in the 1790s, Pera traces the careers of Galvani and Volta and explains their laboratory procedures. He shows that their controversy derived from two basic, irreducible interpretations of the proper nature of a common domain: Galvani saw the frog phenomenon as the work of biological organs, Volta as that of a physical apparatus. The initial preference for Volta's theory, maintains Pera, depended not on clear-cut methodological rules, but on a dialectical dispute for which the renowned physicist was better equipped, partly because he shared the dominant metaphysical views of his time. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Shocking Frogs
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Author : Marco Piccolino
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2013
Shocking Frogs written by Marco Piccolino and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Medical categories.
"... and still we could never suppose that fortune were to be so friendly to us, such as to allow us to be perhaps the first in handling, as it were, the electricity concealed in nerves, in extracting it from nerves, and, in some way, in putting it under everyone's eyes." With these words, Luigi Galvani announced to the world in 1791 his discovery that nervous conduction and muscle excitation are electrical phenomena. The result of more than years of intense experimental work, Galvani's milestone achievement concluded a thousand-year scientific search, in a field long dominated by the antiquated beliefs of classical science. Besides laying the grounds for the development of the modern neurosciences, Galvani's discovery also brought to light an invention that would forever change humankind's everyday life: the electric battery of Alessandro Volta. In an accessible style, written for specialists and general readers alike, Shocking Frogs retraces the steps of both scientific discoveries, starting with the initial hypotheses of the Enlightenment on the involvement of electricity in life processes. So doing, it also reveals the inconsistency of the many stereotypes that an uncritical cultural tradition has imparted to the legacies of Galvani and Volta, and proposes a decidedly new image of these monumental figures.
The Volta River Basin
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Author : Timothy O. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-09-19
The Volta River Basin written by Timothy O. Williams and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-19 with Nature categories.
The Volta River Basin (VRB) is an important transboundary basin in West Africa that covers approximately 410,000 square kilometres across six countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo. Its natural resources sustain the livelihoods of its population and contribute to economic development. This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review and assessment of the issues and challenges faced. The authors provide a science-based assessment of current and future scenarios of water availability, the demands of key sectors, including agriculture and hydropower, and the environment under changing demographic, economic, social and climatic conditions. They also identify solutions and strategies that will allow available water resources to be sustainably used to improve agricultural productivity, food security and economic growth in the VRB. Overall, the work examines from a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder perspective the solutions and strategies to improve the use of water and other natural resources in the VRB to achieve enhanced food security, livelihoods and economic growth.
Relentless Visionary
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Author : Michael Berick
language : en
Publisher: Barbera Foundation
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Relentless Visionary written by Michael Berick and has been published by Barbera Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Biography & Autobiography categories.
If asked to list important inventors, few remember to include Alessandro Volta. Yet, his is a household name more spoken than that of Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers, or even Thomas Edison. That’s because the terms “volt” and “voltage” can be attributed to Volta, the inventor of the “Voltaic pile,” which is recognized as the first electric battery. A product of the Age of Enlightenment—a time when ideas about reason, science, literature and liberty took center stage—Volta employed a very modern, hands-on approach to his work. Though he had no formal education, he was the first person to identify the gas known as methane, and created the first authoritative list of conducting metals. Alessandro Volta saw things not just as they were, but as what they could be. He was a disrupter, an innovator and a visionary. Above all, he was relentless. Without Volta’s hunger to create and his drive to invent and discover, we might not have electric cars, laptops, cellphones, and hearing aids today.
The Volta Review Volume 17 Issues 3 8
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Author : Volta Bureau (U S. ).
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2019-03-26
The Volta Review Volume 17 Issues 3 8 written by Volta Bureau (U S. ). and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-26 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Volta Book Of Poets
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Author : Joshua Marie Wilkinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Volta Book Of Poets written by Joshua Marie Wilkinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with American poetry categories.
Poetry. Anthology. THE VOLTA BOOK OF POETS gathers together the work of 50 talented poets of disparate backgrounds and traditions, providing a constellation of the most exciting, innovative poetry evolving today. Named for the online poetics archive The Volta, THE VOLTA BOOK OF POETS navigates contrasting styles and forms to showcase poetry in its dissimilar pleasures, presenting difference as a means for inspiring a new way to think about poetry, and to inspire readership for the poetry communities and presses radiating out from the poets collected in this essential anthology, including Rosa Alcalá, Eric Baus, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan, Susan Briante, Sommer Browning, Julie Carr, Don Mee Choi, Arda Collins, Dot Devota, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Graham Foust, C.S. Giscombe, Renee Gladman, Noah Eli Gordon, Yona Harvey, Matthew Henriksen, Harmony Holiday, Cathy Park Hong, Bhanu Kapil, John Keene, Aaron Kunin, Dorothea Lasky, Juliana Leslie, Rachel Levitsky, Tan Lin, Dawn Lundy Martin, J. Michael Martinez, Farid Matuk, Shane McCrae, Anna Moschovakis, Fred Moten, Sawako Nakayasu, Chris Nealon, Hoa Nguyen, Khadijah Queen, Andrea Rexilius, Zachary Schomburg, Brandon Shimoda, Evie Shockley, Cedar Sigo, Abraham Smith, Christopher Stackhouse, Mathias Svalina, Roberto Tejada, TC Tolbert, Catherine Wagner, Dana Ward, Ronaldo V. Wilson, and Lynn Xu.
Alessandro Volta And The Electric Battery
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Author : Bern Dibner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Alessandro Volta And The Electric Battery written by Bern Dibner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Electric batteries categories.
The Volta Review Volume 21 Issues 10 12
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Author : Volta Bureau (U S )
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-08-31
The Volta Review Volume 21 Issues 10 12 written by Volta Bureau (U S ) and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-31 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.