first edition, octavo issue, of the chief work on the theory of animal electricity by Galvani''s nephew, "an ardent partisan of his uncle''s cause" (DSB); includes accounts of Mojon''s magnetization of steel needles through prolonged insertion in a voltaic circuit, and of galvanic experiments by Aldini and Carpue on the body of a beheaded criminal in Newgate Prison. DSB I, 107-08; Wheeler Gift 660; cf. Garrison-Morton 1989.1.
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