Galvanism
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Galvanism is a term coined by the late 18th-century physicist and chemist Alessandro Volta to refer to the generation of electric current by chemical action. The term also came to refer to the discove
Galvanism: electrodes touch a frog, and the legs twitch into the upward position
Johann Georg Sulzer
Luigi Galvani
Alessandro Volta demonstrates his battery to Napoleon.
Luigi Galvani
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Luigi Galvani 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 str
Galvanism
…Alessandro Volta to refer to the generation of electric current by chemical action. The term also came to refer to the discoveries of its namesake, Luigi Galvani, specifically the generation of electric current within biological organisms and the contraction/convulsion of biological muscle tissue upon contact…
Portrait of Galvani at the Palazzo Poggi
Experiment De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari.
Luigi Galvani's monument in Piazza Luigi Galvani (Luigi Galvani Square), in Bologna.