Sujet
Galvani's discovery, 1780 (1894). Artist: Unknown.
Légende
Galvani's discovery, 1780 (1894). Italian physiologist Luigi Galvani experimenting on frogs. A professor working in Bologna, Galvani (1737-1798) performed experiments to investigate the behaviour of muscles stimulated by electricity. Whilst investigating the effects of electrostatic stimuli applied to the muscles of frogs, Galvani discovered he could make a muscle twitch by touching the nerve with metal (a pair of scissors for example) without a source of electrostatic charge. He called this phenomenon 'animal electricity'. The term 'galvanise' - to shock or excite into action, takes its name from him. From A Popular History of Science, by Robert Routledge, BSc (Lond.), F.C.S. [George Routledge & Sons, Limited., London, 1894]. (Colorised black and white print).
The Print Collector collection
Date
1894
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19D08_300
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
87,4Mo (6,0Mo) / 54,3cm x 40,3cm / 6416 x 4761 (300dpi)