Appropriating invention: The reception of the voltaic battery in Europe

Instruments, Travel and Science: Itineraries of Precision from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 126-155

  Pancaldi, Giuliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203219010     Document Type: Chapter

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