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Volta and his Influence on Physics
The Voltaic Origins of Helmholtz's Physics of Ions
Changing a Theory: the case of Volta's Contact Electricity
Volta's Apostle: Christoph Heinrich Pfaff, Champion of the Contact Theory
Giuseppe Eugenio Balsamo's Iron_lead Piles and Giuseppe Candido's Regulating Diaphragm Pile: Two Contributions from Lecce to the Development of Volta's Battery
In the Wake of Volta's Challenge: The Electrolysis Theory of Theodor Grotthus, 1805
When Chemistry Entered the Pile
The Battery as a Tool of Genuis in the work of Humphry Davy
Volta and the Strange History of Electromagnetism
The Correspondence between Alessandro Volta and Giuseppe Zamboni about the Realization of the "Dry Piles"
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