Marco Bresadola, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Published online: December 2008
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0002801
Luigi Galvani (1737–1798), an Italian anatomist and physician whose research on animal electricity made a significant contribution to the birth of electrophysiology.
Keywords: animal electricity; electrophysiology; muscle contraction; eighteenth century; Galvanism
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Figure 1. Some experimental arrangements designed by Galvani in his research on animal electricity (plate 4 of Galvani's De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari). Reproduced by permission of Biblioteca Ariostea di Ferrara.
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| Further Reading | |
| Bresadola M (1998) Medicine and science in the life of Luigi Galvani (1737–1798). Brain Research Bulletin 46: 367–380. | |
| Bresadola M (2008) Animal electricity at the end of the eighteenth century: the many facets of a great scientific discovery. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 17: 8–32. | |
| book Bresadola M and Pancaldi G (eds) (1999) Luigi Galvani International Workshop. Bologna: CIS. | |
| book Galvani L (1953) Commentary on the Effects of Electricity on Muscular Motion. M Glover Foley (transl.), IB Cohen (ed.). Norwalk, CT: Burndy Library. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Cribner's Sons. | |
| Heilbron JL (1991) The contributions of Bologna to Galvanism. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 22: 57–85. | |
| Home RW (1970) Electricity and the Nervous Fluid. Journal of the History of Biology 3: 235–251. | |
| book Pera M (1992) The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. | |
| book Williams BI (2000) The Matter of Motion and Galvani's Frogs. Bletchingdon: Rana. | |
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