Experiments on Animal Electricity

Like all cellular organisms humans run on electricity. Cells work like batteries: slight imbalances of electric charge across cell membranes, caused by ions mov

This beautifully illustrated and scholarly book examines the importance of electric fishes in science and medicine and how three species in particular shaped ne

Traces the history of theories about electricity and magnetism, from the experiments of the ancient Greek philosopher Thales to formation of the theory of quant

"... and still we could never suppose that fortune were to be so friendly to us, such as to allow us to be perhaps the first in handling, as it were, the electr