The Matter Of Motion And Galvani S Frogs
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The Matter Of Motion And Galvani S Frogs
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Author : Billie Innes Williams
language : en
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
Release Date : 2000
The Matter Of Motion And Galvani S Frogs written by Billie Innes Williams and has been published by Twayne Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Animal mechanics categories.
Betr. u.a. Albrecht von Hallers Irritabilitätslehre.
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.
Reworking The Bench
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Author : F.L. Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-04-11
Reworking The Bench written by F.L. Holmes and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-11 with Philosophy categories.
This is the first book that addresses the issue of research notes for writing history of science in a comprehensive manner. Its case studies range from the early modern period to present and cover a broad range of different disciplines. The contributions are based on papers presented at the workshop entitled "Reworking the Bench: Laboratory Notebooks in the History of Science", held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin or written after the workshop.
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.
Course Of Lectures On The Sun Comets The Fixed Stars Electricity C Eight Double Lectures Revised And Corrected Second Edition
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Author : Dionysius LARDNER
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1842
Course Of Lectures On The Sun Comets The Fixed Stars Electricity C Eight Double Lectures Revised And Corrected Second Edition written by Dionysius LARDNER and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1842 with categories.
Encyclop Dia Britannica
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1810
Encyclop Dia Britannica written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1810 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
Encyclop Dia Britannica Or A Dictionary Of Arts Sciences And Miscellaneous Literature Enlarged And Improved Vol 1 20
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1823
Encyclop Dia Britannica Or A Dictionary Of Arts Sciences And Miscellaneous Literature Enlarged And Improved Vol 1 20 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1823 with categories.
Matters Of The Mind
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Author : William E. Lyons
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2001
Matters Of The Mind written by William E. Lyons and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Philosophy categories.
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Course Of Lectures
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Author : Dionysius Lardner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1842
Course Of Lectures written by Dionysius Lardner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1842 with Science categories.
Life S Ratchet
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Author : Peter M Hoffmann
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2012-10-30
Life S Ratchet written by Peter M Hoffmann and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-30 with Science categories.
Life is an enduring mystery. Yet, science tells us that living beings are merely sophisticated structures of lifeless molecules. If this view is correct, where do the seemingly purposeful motions of cells and organisms originate? In Life's Ratchet, physicist Peter M. Hoffmann locates the answer to this age-old question at the nanoscale. Below the calm, ordered exterior of a living organism lies microscopic chaos, or what Hoffmann calls the molecular storm -- specialized molecules immersed in a whirlwind of colliding water molecules. Our cells are filled with molecular machines, which, like tiny ratchets, transform random motion into ordered activity, and create the "purpose" that is the hallmark of life. Tiny electrical motors turn electrical voltage into motion, nanoscale factories custom-build other molecular machines, and mechanical machines twist, untwist, separate and package strands of DNA. The cell is like a city -- an unfathomable, complex collection of molecular workers working together to create something greater than themselves. Life, Hoffman argues, emerges from the random motions of atoms filtered through these sophisticated structures of our evolved machinery. We are agglomerations of interacting nanoscale machines more amazing than anything in science fiction. Rather than relying on some mysterious "life force" to drive them -- as people believed for centuries -- life's ratchets harness instead the second law of thermodynamics and the disorder of the molecular storm. Grounded in Hoffmann's own cutting-edge research, Life's Ratchet reveals the incredible findings of modern nanotechnology to tell the story of how the noisy world of atoms gives rise to life itself.