Volume 5
Contents
Preface
Editors and Authors
Abbreviat
ions
From "Electricity Minus" to "-E": Attempts to Introduce the Concept of Negative Magnitude into Worldly Wisdom
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Experimental Physics from the spirit of Aphorism
The Shocking Bag: Medical Electricity in mid-18th-Century London
Electricity in Portugal in Volta's Times
A Shock to the Public: Itinerant Lecturers and Instruments Makers as Practitioners of Electricity in the German Enlightenment (1740-1800)
Volta's Apostle: Christoph Heinrich Pfaff, Champion of the Contact Theory
In the wake of Volta's Challenge: the Electrolysis Theory of Theodor Grotthuss, 1805
The Correspondence between Alessandro Volta and Giuseppe Zamboni about the Realisation of the "Dry Pile"
The Battery as a Tool of Genius in the Work of Humphry Davy
When Chemistry entered the Pile
Giuseppe Eugenio Balsamo's Iron-Lead Pile, Giuseppe Candido's Regulating Diaphragm Pile: Two Contributions from Lecce to the Development of Volta's Battery
Changing a Theory: The Case of Volta's Contact Electricity
The Voltaic Origins of Helmholtz's Physics of Ions
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