MISCELLANEOUS FROM THE BECQUEREL ARCHIVES. - Lot 136

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MISCELLANEOUS FROM THE BECQUEREL ARCHIVES. - Lot 136
MISCELLANEOUS FROM THE BECQUEREL ARCHIVES. - GALVANI / DUVERNEY]. Manuscript bearing a signature [ASH? Auguste de Saint-Hilaire??], ca. 1855. 1 p. in-4. On Duverney's discovery of galvanism 37 years before Galvani's birth. "He (Duverney) showed on a freshly dead frog, that by taking from the belly of the animal, the nerves which go to the thighs & legs, and by irritating them a little with the scalpel, these parts quiver and suffer a kind of convulsion [...] Here then is the effect of galvanism seen 155 years ago, 37 years before the birth of Galvani [...]. I cannot believe that this passage has remained ignored and forgotten, and yet I have never heard any claim in favor of Duverney against Galvani. Show this quotation to Mr. Becquerel, wouldn't it be good to show that France and the Academy of Sciences of Paris have a great share in the beautiful discovery of the physician and physicist of Bologna". - 3 printed brochures: Société d'encouragement de l'industrie nationale (1875), Des propriétés physiques des terres arables by M. Hervé-Mangon, and obituary (in English) on Professor Alfred Marie Cornu. - mathematical note in pencil with diagram.
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