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EG13667

Luigi Galvani (1737-98), pioneer of bioelectromagnetics, and bioelectricity, inspiration for Frankenstein.

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Italy, Bologna, Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, pioneer of bioelectromagnetics, and bioelectricity, bronze medal by Tommaso Mercandetti, 1888, on the centenary of the discovery of galvanism, bust right, ALOYSIVS GALVANVS, rev. ANNO MDCCCLXXXVIII CENTESIMO A VI ELECTRICA ANIMANTIUM INVENTA CIVITAS BONONIENSIS, 67mm. Extremely fine, beautiful chestnut patina, scarce.

When challenged by Lord Byron to write a ghost story, it was Galvani's research that inspired Mary Shelley to write her horror classic, Frankenstein.

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