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De viribus electricitas, Luigi Galvani, 1792
Luigi Galvani
was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher.
He is recognized as the pioneer of bioelectromagnetics. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs’ legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark. This was one of the first forays into the study of bioelectricity, a field that still studies the electrical patterns and signals from tissues such as the nerves and muscles. His experiments were one of the things that inspired the creature-making science in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
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