Shocking Frogs

Shocking Frogs
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Total Pages : 399
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ISBN-10 : 9780199782161
ISBN-13 : 0199782164
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Book Synopsis Shocking Frogs by : Marco Piccolino

Download or read book Shocking Frogs written by Marco Piccolino and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shocking frogs offers a completely new perspective on a fundamental episode of eighteenth-century science--leading, on one hand, to the discovery of the electric nature of nervous signals, and, on the other, to the invention of the electric battery.


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