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Galvani, Luigi

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GALVANI, LUIGI. - Born in Bologna on Sept. 9, 1737; died there on Dec. 4, 1798. In 1763 he received a university teaching post in anatomy in his native city. He discovered the physiological actions of electricity and had a famous controversy on this subject with Alessandro Volta: it led Volta to the discovery of the battery and G. to the explanation of the physiological phenomena of electricity. He was deeply religious and a Franciscan tertiary from 1779.

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BIBL.: J. L. Alibert, Eloge de G., Paris 1816; Q. Majorana, Commemorazione di L. G., in Nuovo Cimento, 14 (1937); G. Baffino, Bilancio bibliografico del bicentenario di L. G., in Bibliografia, 40 (1938), p. 133 ff.

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By Giorgio Maria Baffoni

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), col. 1915.

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Baffoni, Giorgio Maria. “Galvani, luigi.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 1915. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/galvani-luigi.

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Baffoni, Giorgio Maria. “Galvani, luigi.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1915. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/galvani-luigi.

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@incollection{ec5_galvani_luigi,
  author    = {Baffoni, Giorgio Maria},
  title     = {Galvani, luigi},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {1915},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/galvani-luigi}
}

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