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Paper, 'Electro-physiological researches. The physiological action of the electric current. Fourth memoir' by Charles [Carlo] Matteucci

Reference number: PT/31/5

Date: 22 March 1846

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Electro-physiological researches.-Fourth Memoir. The physiological action of the electric current'.

Written by Matteucci in Pise [Pisa, Italy]. Communicated by Michael Faraday. Received by the Royal Society on 11 June 1846. Read 18 June 1846.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851.

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PT/31/5
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22 March 1846
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Ink on paper
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24 pages
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Manuscript

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Carlo Matteucci

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Carlo Matteucci, Paper, 'Electro-physiological researches. The physiological action of the electric current. Fourth memoir' by Charles [Carlo] Matteucci, 22 March 1846, PT/31/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_31_5/paper-electro-physiological-researches-the-physiological-action-of-the-electric-current-fourth-memoir-by-charles-carlo-matteucci, accessed on 17 January 2025

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