Screen LibraryThe shocking history of electric fishes：from ancient epochs to the birth of modern neurophysiology
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 470 p.: ill., maps ; 29 cm. |
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9780195366723 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0195366727 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | Q959 |
| CLC: | Q959.4 |
| Call Number: | Q959.4/F497 |
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Exchange. Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-457) and index. 19. Sparks in darkness and the eel's electrical sense -- 20. Public knowledge: newspapers, magazines, and "shocking" poetry -- Pt. VI. From fish to nerve physiology and back. 21. Galvani's animal electricity -- 22. Electric fishes in Volta's path to the battery -- 23. Galvanism Contra "Voltaism": electric fishes and the "unsolvable" dilemma -- 24. Electric fishes in the nineteenth century -- 25. The changing neurophysiological setting -- 26. Understanding the shock mechanisms: a twentieth-century odyssey. |