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    Experiments on galvanism with frogs

    Date
    1804
    Object type
    Library reference
    R68357
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 195mm
    width (print): 125mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > frog
    Description
    Illustration from chapter on "The influence of two dissimilar metals on the muscular fibres of a frog", from Elements of galvanism, in theory and practice, by Charles Henry Wilkinson (London, 1804) the 'Lecturer on Galvanism in Soho-square'.

    Elements of was an early history of galvanism and Galvani's experiments in the 1780s and 1790s, and a practical manual showing how to perform experiments in 'animal electricity'.
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