Credits

“Neurosciences in-formation: a visual history of Galvanism” has been awarded a grant by the FENS History of Neuroscience Committee in the History of Neuroscience Online Projects 2016.

Edited by Marco Bresadola, with the collaboration of Mariasilvia Accardo and Leonardo Anatrini.

Info: marco.bresadola@unife.it

Bibliography (selection):

A. Books:
- M. Bresadola (with Giuliano Pancaldi) (eds.), Luigi Galvani International Workshop. Proceedings, Bologna, CIS, 1999.
- Luigi Galvani, De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius (1791), electronic edition edited by M. Bresadola, Bologna, CIS, 2000 (http://cis.alma.unibo.it/galvani/liber.html).
- M. Bresadola, Luigi Galvani. Devozione, scienza e rivoluzione, Bologna, Editrice Compositori, 2011.
- M. Bresadola (with M. Piccolino), Shocking frogs. Galvani, Volta, and the electric origins of neuroscience, New York - Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013
B. Articles and chapters:
- M. Bresadola, Medicine and science in the life of Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), “Brain Research Bulletin”, 46 (1998), pp. 367-380.
- M. Bresadola, Exploring Galvani’s room for experiments, in M. Bresadola and G. Pancaldi (eds.), Luigi Galvani International Workshop. Proceedings, Bologna, CIS, 1999, pp. 65-82.
- M. Bresadola, Early Galvanism as technique and medical practice, in P. Bertucci and G. Pancaldi (eds.), Electric bodies. Episodes in the history of medical electricity, Bologna, CIS, 2001, pp. 157-179.
- M. Bresadola, At play with nature: Luigi Galvani’s experimental approach to muscular physiology, in F. Holmes – J. Renn – H. Rheinberger (eds.), Reworking the bench. Research notebooks in the history of science, “Archimedes”, 7 (2003), pp. 67-92.
- M. Bresadola, Animal electricity at the end of the eighteenth century: the many facets of a great scientific controversy, “Journal of the History of the Neurosciences”, 17 (2008), pp. 8-32.
- M. Bresadola, Galvani, Luigi, in Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, December 2008 [DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0002801].
- M. Bresadola, Carlo Matteucci and the legacy of Luigi Galvani, “Archives Italiennes de Biologie”, 149 Suppl. (2011), pp. 3-9.