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Luigi Galvani |
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Bologna
09.October.1737-Bologna
04.December.1798 | |||
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 It was graduated in 1759, published its thesis of
bachelor in the 1762 (De ossibus) the
year after is already, "honorary medicine reader" in the
Archiginnasio, subsequently in 1766 becomes university professor of
anatomy in the institute of Sciences. The career of the Galvani is fast
in 1775 is name "reader of practical anatomy" and
president of the Academy of Sciences of its city
born them, finally in a 1782 s' earns in the obstetrics chair, becoming
authority in its matter. In 1791 it published < <De viribus electricitates in motu muscular (the force of the electricity in the muscular motion), memory that collects the observations and experiments on the behavior of the frogs or animals speed up to you from electricity. The author compared the bodies of the animals to the bottle of Leida with muscles like armors and the nerves like the conductors, while the source of the animal electricity resided in the brain. In
its experimentation he brought to light
unconsciously
the existence
of a new electricity, the contact
electricity, in
other words the potential difference them that he obtains
himself
connecting two various metals, this particularity will be cleared from
Alexander Volta.
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New
branch of science founded one the Electrophysiology. It cleared the function of the
nerves, but the merit will be recognized to it much
later. Emil
Heinrich and Du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896)
investigators who described in impeccable way the physiological
electricity.. |
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