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Giovanni Aldini: The Reanimator of the 19th Century

December 27, 2025March 18, 2013

Electrical Experiments of Giovanni Aldini on Human Bodies Giovanni Aldini, born in 1762 in Bologna, Italy, was a pioneering physicist and the nephew of the … Read more

Galvanism

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