Portrait of Galvani, pen and grey ink, watercolour on vellum, signed by the Italian artist Mauro Gandolfi.
Bologna: ca. 1800. Very rare and beautiful contemporary portrait of Luigi Galvani (1737 – 1798), who inaugurated the modern epoch in electricity with his celebrated description of the production of “current electricity” by contact between two different metals and the legs of a frog. “Although the existence of electricity had..... More
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