The Debate Between Galvani and Volta Concerning the Nature of Electricity

The Debate Between Galvani and Volta Concerning the Nature of Electricity


Dot Point:
„h Identify data sources, gather, process and analyze secondary information about differing views of Volta and Galvani about animal and chemical electricity, and discuss whether their different views contributed to increased understanding of electricity.


Research Topic ¡V Outline the debate between Galvani and Volta concerning the nature of electricity.


To learn of the controversy between Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta we must first know some background information. Galvani was the lecturer of anatomy and surgery at Bologna. He was mainly interested in animal senses and then he deeply focused on the actions of the nervous system.

Volta on the other hand was more interested in the physics and chemical end of science focusing mainly on electricity. It was because of a discovery that the two started their debate.

Galvani¡¦s wife had prepared some frogs legs for a meal...