The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-VOLTA Controversy on Animal Electricity

by Marcello Pera

Book Overview

How do ideas become accepted by the scientific community? How and why do scientists choose among empirically equivalent theories? In this pathbreaking book translated from the Italian, Marcello Pera addresses these questions by exploring the politics, rhetoric, scientific practices, and metaphysical assumptions that entered into the famous Galvani-Volta controversy of the late eighteenth century. This lively debate erupted when two scientists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691603979
• ISBN13: 9780691603971
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"