The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity
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The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity
By (Author) Marcello Pera
Translated by Jonathan Mandelbaum
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
591.19127
Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1992
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Paperback
232
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
312g
Description
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-
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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992
