Physicist (18-Feb-1745 — 5-Mar-1827)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Bern Dibner. Alessandro Volta and the Electric Battery. F. Watts. 1964. 135pp. Includes translation of Volta's On the electricity excited by the mere contact of conducting substances of different kinds.

Giuliano Pancaldi. Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment. Princeton University Press. 2005. 400pp.

Marcello Pera. Translated by Jonathan Mandelbaum. The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity. Princeton University Press. 1991. 203pp.

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

6. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1515)

7. The Catholic Encyclopedia (vol.15, pp.503-04)

8. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (p.146)

9. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.500)

10. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists (p.493)

11. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.530)

12. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.157)

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