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Paperback The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-VOLTA Controversy on Animal Electricity Book

ISBN: 0691603979

ISBN13: 9780691603971

The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-VOLTA Controversy on Animal Electricity

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How do ideas become accepted by the scientific community? How and why do scientists choose among empirically equivalent theories? In this pathbreaking book translated from the Italian, Marcello Pera addresses these questions by exploring the politics, rhetoric, scientific practices, and metaphysical assumptions that entered into the famous Galvani-Volta controversy of the late eighteenth century. This lively debate erupted when two scientists,...

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