Spicilegium observationum anatomicarum de organo electrico in Raiis anelectricis et de Haematozois.

  • Mayer, A. F. J. C. (August Franz Joseph Carl), 1787-1865.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Spicilegium observationum anatomicarum de organo electrico in Raiis anelectricis et de Haematozois. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    percutiente emanantibus, inque manum id tangentem trans- silientibus concussionem et dolorem derivandum esse suspi- catus est. Kaempfer vero (Amoenitat. exotic. Fasc. 3. obs. 2. p. 509) vapores horrificos excogitavit a torpedine, in sinu Persico a se observata, exhalatos. Detectis autem fluidi electrici natura et imprimis phia- lae Leydensis sic dictae vi atque affectibus nova in hac re obscura apparuit lux, disparueruntque nebulosa ac vana illa opinionum commenta. lamiam Adanson et post eum s Grcivesand (v. Rozier Observations 1775. v. 444.) effectum laudati organi in Gym- noto animadvertentes, illi phialae Leydensis simillimum esse pronunciabant. Verum enim vero primus omnium ff^alsh vim organi stupefacientis analogicam esse vi electri- cae seu potius eandem esse ac illam certis et multifariis experimentis coram Academia litt. La Rochelle in Gallia anno 1772. comprobare studuit. (Vide etiam Phil. Trans- act. 1744. p. 461.). Verba ipsissima JJ^alslui liaecce sunt: „The effects produced by the Torpedo ressemble in every respect a weak electricity and the experiments inclu- ded ncarly ali the points in which its analogy with the Leyden phial had been observed.u Iustiorem huius phaenominis explicationem proposuit autem P^olta, columnae electro-chemicae magnus inventor, organi nostri Cylindros illos antiquorum columnas efficere revera galvanicas, ex stratis transversis, interposito fluido gelatinoso conductore, compositas (Gehlei' Journal der Che- mie IV. p. 612.). Theoriam hanc novis observationibus