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Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
(18 Feb 1745 - 5 Mar 1827)
Italian physicist who invented the first battery, able to supply a sustained current of electricity.
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Science Quotes by Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (2 quotes)
...each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion...
— Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
Le Opere, Vol. 1, 149. In Giuliano Pancaldi, Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment (2005), 190.
The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.
— Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
In Marcello Pera, The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity (1992). Cited in Patrick F. Dunn, Measurement and Data Analysis for Engineering and Science (2010), 15.
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18 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Volta's birth. -
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Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment, by Giuliano Pancaldi. - book suggestion.
Booklist for Alessandro Volta.
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
