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462:, a French client state founded in 1797 after the French occupation of Northern Italy, required every university professor to swear loyalty to the new authority. Galvani, who disagreed with the social and political confusion, refused to swear loyalty, along with other colleagues. This led to the new authority depriving him of all his academic and public positions, which took every financial support away. Galvani died peacefully surrounded by his mother and father, in his brother’s house depressed and in poverty, on 4 December 1798. 361: 412: 151: 559: 350: 1085: 33: 432:, was among the first scientists who repeated and checked Galvani’s experiments. At first, he embraced animal electricity. However, he started to doubt that the conductions were caused by specific electricity intrinsic to the animal's legs or other body parts. Volta believed that the contractions depended on the metal cable Galvani used to connect the nerves and muscles in his experiments. 443:, and thus can be duplicated outside the body. Volta's intuition was correct. Volta, essentially, objected to Galvani’s conclusions about "animal electric fluid", but the two scientists disagreed respectfully and Volta coined the term "Galvanism" for a direct current of electricity produced by chemical action. 383:
Galvani then began taking an interest in the field of "medical electricity". This field emerged in the middle of the 18th century, following electrical researches and the discovery of the effects of electricity on the human body by scientists including Bertrand Bajon and
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said of Galvani that he never ended his lessons “without exhorting his hearers and leading them back to the idea of that eternal Providence, which develops, conserves, and circulates life among so many diverse beings.”
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de Asúa, Miguel (9 April 2008). "The Experiments of Ramón M. Termeyer SJ on the Electric Eel in the River Plate Region (c. 1760) and other Early Accounts of Electrophorus electricus".
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Alexander, Mauro (1969). "The role of the voltaic pile in the Galvani-Volta controversy concerning animal vs. metallic electricity".
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Galvani's name also survives in everyday language as the verb 'galvanize' as well as in more specialized terms:
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VanderVeer, Joseph B. (6 July 2011). "Hugh Williamson: Physician, Patriot, and Founding Father".
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Since Galvani was reluctant to intervene in the controversy with Volta, he trusted his nephew,
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Bresadola, Marco (15 July 1998). "Medicine and science in the life of Luigi Galvani".
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Galvani actively investigated animal electricity until the end of his life. The
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Galvani, according to William Fox, was "by nature courageous and religious."
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Luigi Galvani was born to Domenico Galvani and Barbara Caterina Foschi, in
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Galvani's report of his investigations were mentioned specifically by
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Electrodes touch a frog, and the legs twitch into the upward position
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The science of common things: a familiar explanation of the first
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contest on a rainy day in Switzerland—and the resultant novel
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A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity. Vol 1
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius
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Late 1780s diagram of Galvani's experiment on frog legs
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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
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The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
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as part of the summer reading list leading up to an
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