GALVANI, Luigi (1737-1798). De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius cum Joannis Aldini dissertatione et notis. Accesserunt epistolae ad animalis electricitatis theoriam pertinentes . Modena: apud Societatem Typographicam, 1792.
GALVANI, Luigi (1737-1798). De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius cum Joannis Aldini dissertatione et notis. Accesserunt epistolae ad animalis electricitatis theoriam pertinentes . Modena: apud Societatem Typographicam, 1792. 4° (277 x 205mm). 3 folding engraved plates printed in black, plate 3 in the first state with the letter 'E' in figure 22 uncorrected, woodcut headpiece. (Without blank leaf c6, tiny marginal wormtrack at gutter, plate 2 with very short marginal tears along creasefolds without loss.) Contemporary boards (extremities rubbed), contained within modern cloth box. Provenance : Giovanni Aldini (1762-1834, presentation inscription on flyleaf to:) -- Isarn (probably Joseph Izarn). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM WITH THE COMMENTARY BY GIOVANNI ALDINI, WITH HIS PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION. Galvani first published his theory in 1791, in volume V of the proceedings of the Bologna Academy of Science, where it aroused great interest and controversy. Galvani believed that 'animals possess in their nerves and muscles a subtle fluid quite analogous to ordinary electricity' (DSB). In the course of his experiments, Galvani hit upon by accident the phenomenon of 'galvanism', the production of an electric current between two metals in a moist environment. The offprint of his 1791 article, the first separate edition of the work, is known in only a dozen copies. Galvani's nephew, Aldini, became his uncle's most ardent supported, and published this edition - the first in book form - the following year with his extended notes and commentary. At the end appears an exchange of letters between Don Bassano Carminati and Galvani, containing Carminati's report of Volta's repetition of Galvani's experiments, which Volta interpreted correctly as the result of contact electricity. This would lead to his invention of the voltaic pile and the first continuous and controllable electric current. FINE ASSOCIATION COPY: the recipient of the book from Aldini, 'Isarn', is most probably Joseph Izarn who published his work Manuel du galvanisme in 1805. Fulton and Stanton Galvani , 5; Osler 1243; Waller 11346; Wellcome III, p. 86; Wheeler Gift 575; Norman 869.
GALVANI, Luigi (1737-1798). De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius cum Joannis Aldini dissertatione et notis. Accesserunt epistolae ad animalis electricitatis theoriam pertinentes . Modena: apud Societatem Typographicam, 1792.
GALVANI, Luigi (1737-1798). De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius cum Joannis Aldini dissertatione et notis. Accesserunt epistolae ad animalis electricitatis theoriam pertinentes . Modena: apud Societatem Typographicam, 1792. 4° (277 x 205mm). 3 folding engraved plates printed in black, plate 3 in the first state with the letter 'E' in figure 22 uncorrected, woodcut headpiece. (Without blank leaf c6, tiny marginal wormtrack at gutter, plate 2 with very short marginal tears along creasefolds without loss.) Contemporary boards (extremities rubbed), contained within modern cloth box. Provenance : Giovanni Aldini (1762-1834, presentation inscription on flyleaf to:) -- Isarn (probably Joseph Izarn). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM WITH THE COMMENTARY BY GIOVANNI ALDINI, WITH HIS PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION. Galvani first published his theory in 1791, in volume V of the proceedings of the Bologna Academy of Science, where it aroused great interest and controversy. Galvani believed that 'animals possess in their nerves and muscles a subtle fluid quite analogous to ordinary electricity' (DSB). In the course of his experiments, Galvani hit upon by accident the phenomenon of 'galvanism', the production of an electric current between two metals in a moist environment. The offprint of his 1791 article, the first separate edition of the work, is known in only a dozen copies. Galvani's nephew, Aldini, became his uncle's most ardent supported, and published this edition - the first in book form - the following year with his extended notes and commentary. At the end appears an exchange of letters between Don Bassano Carminati and Galvani, containing Carminati's report of Volta's repetition of Galvani's experiments, which Volta interpreted correctly as the result of contact electricity. This would lead to his invention of the voltaic pile and the first continuous and controllable electric current. FINE ASSOCIATION COPY: the recipient of the book from Aldini, 'Isarn', is most probably Joseph Izarn who published his work Manuel du galvanisme in 1805. Fulton and Stanton Galvani , 5; Osler 1243; Waller 11346; Wellcome III, p. 86; Wheeler Gift 575; Norman 869.
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