Galvanism
91Table-turning — or Table Tipping (see Ouija board) is a type of séance in which participants sit around a table, place their hands on it, and wait for rotations. The table was purportedly made to serve as a means of communicating with the spirits; the alphabet… …
92Golding Bird — (December 9, 1814 in Norfolk, England – October 27, 1854 in Tunbridge Wells) was a British medical doctor.Bird was educated at a private school in London. He apprenticed in a pharmacy.He became a great authority in kidney diseases.He is buried in …
93Vladimir Odoevsky — Portrait by Levitsky, 1856. Born August 13, 1803(1803 08 13) Moscow Died March 11, 1869( …
94Methods of divination — This article is about the numerous varieties of divination. For divination as a whole, see Divination. Innumerable methods of divination can be found around the world, and many cultures practice the same methods under different names. During the… …
95Étienne-Gaspard Robert — Infobox Person name=Étienne Gaspard Robert other names=Robertson nationality=Belgian occupation=Stage magician, physicist and balloonist birth date=1763 birth place=Liège, Belgium death date=1837 death place=Paris, FranceÉtienne Gaspard Robert… …
96Eusebio Valli — (1755–1816) was a physician from Lari, Pisa, Italy, who in the shadows of Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta also studied the phenomenon of animal electricity or bioelectricity. Animal electricity Galvani s 1792 publication regarding the… …
97Hallerian physiology — was a theory competing with galvanism in Italy in the late 18th century. It is named after Albrecht von Haller, a Swiss physician who is considered the father of neurology.The hallerians fundamental tenet held that muscular movements were… …
98Romanticism in science — Romanticism, also known as the “Age of Reflexion,” describes the intellectual movement from 1800 1840 that originated in Western Europe as a counter movement to the Enlightenment of the late 18th century. Romanticism incorporated many fields of… …
99Postmortem spasm — Sometimes, after an organism has died, small movements of the limbs (a twitch of a finger or even a whole leg moving) can be observed. This phenomenon, known as postmortem spasm, can be observed in human cadavers as well as smaller organisms that …
100Paul Ludwig Simon — Paul Ludwig Simon, also known as Paul Louis Simon (January 12, 1771 – February 14, 1815), was a German architect and professor at the Building Academy (Bauakademie) in the faculty of architectural physics and a privy architectural counsellor at… …
