Animal Electricity

Author : Robert B. Campenot
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674495586
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Electricity written by Robert B. Campenot and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like all cellular organisms humans run on electricity. Cells work like batteries: slight imbalances of electric charge across cell membranes, caused by ions moving in and out of cells, result in sensation, movement, awareness, and thinking—the things we associate with being alive. Robert Campenot offers an accessible overview of animal electricity.

Author : Emil Du Bois-Reymond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Animal Electricity written by Emil Du Bois-Reymond and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eusebio Valli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiments on Animal Electricity written by Eusebio Valli and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Akira Mizuta Lippit
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816634859
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electric Animal written by Akira Mizuta Lippit and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiation from animals helped to establish the notion of a human being, but the disappearance of animals now threatens that identity. This is the argument underlying Electric Animal, a probing exploration of the figure of the animal in modern culture. Akira Mizuta Lippit shows us the animal as a crucial figure in the definition of modernity -- essential to developments in the natural sciences and technology, radical transformations in modern philosophy and literature, and the advent of psychoanalysis and the cinema. Moving beyond the dialectical framework that has traditionally bound animal and human being, Electric Animal raises a series of questions regarding the idea of animality in Western thought. Can animals communicate? Do they have consciousness? Are they aware of death? By tracing questions such as these through a wide range of texts by writers ranging from Friedrich Nietzsche to Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud to Vicki Heame, Lewis Carroll to Franz Kafka, and Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Deleuze, Lippit arrives at a remarkable thesis, revealing an extraordinary logical consensus in Western thought: animals do not have language and hence cannot die. The animal has, accordingly, haunted thought as a form of spectral and undead being. Lippit demonstrates how, in the late nineteenth century; this phantasmic concept of animal being reached the proportions of an epistemological crisis, engendering the disciplines and media of psychoanalysis, modern literature, and cinema, among others. Against the prohibitive logic of Western philosophy, these fields opened a space for rethinking animality. Technology, usually thought of in opposition to nature, came to serve as therepository for an unmournable animality -- a kind of vast wildlife museum. A highly original work that charts new territory in current debates over language and mortality, subjectivity and technology, Electric Animal brings to light fundamental questions about the status of representation -- of the animal and of ourselves -- in the age of biomechanical reproduction.

Author : James S. Olcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Electricity ; Or, The Electric Science written by James S. Olcott and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Bell (professor of animal magnetism.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The General and Particular Principles of Animal Electricity and Magnetism, Etc written by John Bell (professor of animal magnetism.) and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Augustus Désiré Waller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Animal Electricity written by Augustus Désiré Waller and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Buffy Silverman
Publisher : Britannica Digital Learning
ISBN 13 : 0982382294
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zap! It's Electricity! written by Buffy Silverman and published by Britannica Digital Learning. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intermediate readers explore electricity.

Author : Carmella Van Vleet
Publisher : Nomad Press
ISBN 13 : 1619301822
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EXPLORE ELECTRICITY! written by Carmella Van Vleet and published by Nomad Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the pace of how we harness and utilize electricity, as well as the importance of developing new sources of energy, electricity is a timely subject for kids to explore. In Explore Electricity! With 25 Great Projects, kids ages 6-9 will learn the basics of electricity: currents, circuits, power, magnetism and electromagnetism, motors and generators. They’ll become more attuned to how much they rely on electricity in their daily lives. They’ll also understand that while electricity is a wonderful resource, and one we’ve used to our advantage ever since it was discovered, the future of how we make and use electricity is still changing and there are things they can do today to impact these changes. This title invites kids to experiment on their own with 25 simple projects that will “spark” their learning and enthusiasm, including making their own clothespin switch, lemon battery, compass, electromagnet, and flashlight, as well as generating their own “lightning.” These hands-on activities combined with informational text will excite kids about STEM? the interrelated fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Author : Marco Piccolino
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199782164
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shocking Frogs written by Marco Piccolino and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... 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 electricity concealed in nerves, in extracting it from nerves, and, in some way, in putting it under everyone's eyes." With these words, Luigi Galvani announced to the world in 1791 his discovery that nervous conduction and muscle excitation are electrical phenomena. The result of more than years of intense experimental work, Galvani's milestone achievement concluded a thousand-year scientific search, in a field long dominated by the antiquated beliefs of classical science. Besides laying the grounds for the development of the modern neurosciences, Galvani's discovery also brought to light an invention that would forever change humankind's everyday life: the electric battery of Alessandro Volta. In an accessible style, written for specialists and general readers alike, Shocking Frogs retraces the steps of both scientific discoveries, starting with the initial hypotheses of the Enlightenment on the involvement of electricity in life processes. So doing, it also reveals the inconsistency of the many stereotypes that an uncritical cultural tradition has imparted to the legacies of Galvani and Volta, and proposes a decidedly new image of these monumental figures.