The shocking history of electric fishes: from ancient epochs to the birth of modern neurophysiology
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| adam_text | The Shocking History of
Electric Fishes
From Ancient Epochs to the Birth of
Modern Neurophysiology
Stanley Finger
Marco Piccolino
OXPORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contents
Part I: Introduction
1 The Allure of Electric Fishes:
Humboldt s Obsession 3
Part II: Ancient Cultures
2 The Shocking Catfish of the Nile 19
3 Torpedoes in the Greco-Roman World:
Pt 1 Wonders of Nature Between
Science and Myth 29
4 Torpedoes in the Greco-Roman World:
Pt 2 From Therapeutic Shocks to
Theories of the Discharge 45
5 Byzantine and Islamic Writings 64
Part m: Late Middle Ages to the Early
Modern Period
6 Torpedoes: From the Scholastics through
the Renaissance 87
7 Rediscovering the Torporific Catfish 112
8 The Eels of South America 127
9 From the Occult to Mechanical Theories
of the Discharge 137
Part IV: The Emergence of Fish Electricity
10 The Electrical World of Benjamin
Franklin 163
11 Animal Spirits and Physiology 179
12 First Steps Toward Fish Electricity 191
13 The Dutch, the Eel, and Electricity 201
Part V: The Royal Society And The
Coveted Spark
14 Edward Bancroft s Guiana Eels and
London Connections 217
15 John Walsh s Scientific Journey 230
16 The Royal Society and Interdisciplinary
Science 243
17 Out of the Guianas: The American
Philosophical Society and the Eel 258
18 Alexander Garden: A Linnaean in South
Carolina and Captain Baker s Eels 269
19 Sparks in Darkness and the Eel s
Electrical Sense 281
20 Public Knowledge: Newspapers,
Magazines, and Shocking Poetry 292
Part VI: From Fish to Nerve Physiology
and Back
21 Galvani s Animal Electricity 307
22 Electric Fishes in Volta s Path to the
Battery 326
23 Galvanism Contra Voltaism: Electric
Fishes and the Unsolvable Dilemma 339
24 Electric Fishes in the Nineteenth Century 351
25 The Changing Neurophysiological
Setting 375
26 Understanding the Shock Mechanisms:
A Twentieth-Century Odyssey 394
Epilogue 416
APPENDIX: Names with Birth and
Death Dates 421
References 429
Index 459
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