Italiano: Incisione che illustra l'esperimento di Luigi Galvani sull'eccitazione a distanza del nervo crurale di una rana per effetto di una scintilla rilasciata dal conduttore di una macchina elettrostatica.
Credit: Dall'opera "De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius" - ampiamente diffusa sul web e dal copyright scaduto.
English: Diagram of Galvani's experiment in frog legs.
A A Filum ferreum insulatum, seu nervorum conductor.
B B B Tubi vitrei, quibus filum ferreum est inclusum, ut insuletur.
C Vitreum vas, intra quod rana de more praeparata continetur.
D Filum ferreum, seu conductor musculorum, cujus extremitas una artus attingit, altera ad putei aquas est producta.
Fig. 8.
E Rana de more parata supra tabulam oleoso pigmento obductam strata.
F Nervorum conductor non insulatus, qui una sui extremitate spinali medullae infigitur, altera ferreo unco muro infixo adnectitur.
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