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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: shocking history of electric fishes
    sub title: from ancient epochs to the birth of modern neurophysiology
  name:
    name part: Finger, Stanley.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Piccolino, Marco.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: ©2011
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 470 pages) : illustrations, maps
  abstract: This title looks at how three kinds of strongly electric fishes became electrical, and how they helped to change the sciences and medicine. These fishes are the flat torpedo rays common to the Mediterranean, the electric catfishes of Africa, and an eel from South America.
  table of contents: Cover; Contents; Part I: Introduction; 1. The Allure of Electric Fishes: Humboldt's Obsession; Part II: Ancient Cultures; 2. The Shocking Catfish of the Nile; 3. Torpedoes in the Greco-Roman World: pt. 1. Wonders of Nature Between Science and Myth; 4. Torpedoes in the Greco-Roman World: pt. 2. From Therapeutic Shocks to Theories of the Discharge; 5. Byzantine and Islamic Writings; Part III: Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period; 6. Torpedoes: From the Scholastics through the Renaissance; 7. Rediscovering the Torporific Catfish; 8. The "Eels" of South America
  table of contents: 9. From the Occult to Mechanical Theories of the DischargePart IV: The Emergence of Fish Electricity; 10. The Electrical World of Benjamin Franklin; 11. Animal Spirits and Physiology; 12. First Steps Toward Fish Electricity; 13. The Dutch, the Eel, and Electricity; Part V: The Royal Society And The Coveted Spark; 14. Edward Bancroft's Guiana Eels and London Connections; 15. John Walsh's Scientific Journey; 16. The Royal Society and Interdisciplinary Science; 17. Out of the Guianas: The American Philosophical Society and the Eel
  table of contents: 18. Alexander Garden: A Linnaean in South Carolina and Captain Baker's Eels19. Sparks in Darkness and the Eel's Electrical Sense; 20. Public Knowledge: Newspapers, Magazines, and "Shocking" Poetry; Part 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; Epilogue
  table of contents: APPENDIX: Names with Birth and Death DatesReferences; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
  note: Stanley Finger, Marco Piccolino.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Electric fishes
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Neurophysiology
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Electric Fish
    topic: physiology
  subject:
    topic: Electric Organ
    topic: physiology
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Poissons électriques
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Anthropology
    topic: Physical
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: Electric fishes
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: Elektrische Fische
  subject:
    topic: Neurophysiologie
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Electric organs in fishes
    topic: History
  classification: RC338 .F56 2011eb
  classification: 573.97
  classification: WL 11.1 F497s 2011
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    record creation date: 111004
    record change date: 20260318185327.1
    record identifier: in00005706963
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng