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Marcello Pera. The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity. Translated by Jonathan Mandelbaum. Princeton: Princeton University Press (1992), xxvi + 203 pp., $29.95 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Wesley C. Salmon
Wesley C. Salmon*
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 164 - 166
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1995

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