The allure of electric fishes : Humboldt's obsession
The shocking catfish of the Nile
Torpedoes in the Greco-Roman world. Pt. 1, Wonders of nature between science and myth
Torpedoes in the Greco-Roman world. Pt. 2, From therapeutic shocks to theories of the discharge
Byzantine and Islamic writings
Torpedoes : from the scholastics through the Renaissance
Rediscovering the torporific catfish
The "eels" of South America
From the occult to mechanical theories of the discharge
The electrical world of Benjamin Franklin
Animal spirits and physiology
First steps toward fish electricity
The Dutch, the eel, and electricity
Edward Bancroft's Guiana eels and London connections
John Walsh's scientific journey
The Royal Society and interdisciplinary science
Out of the Guianas : the American Philosophical Society and the eel
Alexander Garden : a Linnaean in South Carolina and Captain Baker's eels
Sparks in darkness and the eel's electrical sense
Public knowledge : newspapers, magazines, and "shocking" poetry
Galvani's animal electricity
Electric fishes in Volta's path to the battery
Galvanism contra "Voltaism" : electric fishes and the "unsolvable" dilemma
Electric fishes in the nineteenth century
The changing neurophysiological setting
Understanding the shock mechanisms : a twentieth-century odyssey.
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The shocking history of electric fishes : from ancient epochs to the birth of modern neurophysiology by Stanley Finger. ISBN 9780195366723. Published by Oxford University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
