Project Gutenberg<p>Italian physician, physicist, biologist Luigi Galvani was born <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> in 1737.</p><p>In 1780, Galvani discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark. Galvani's report of his investigations were mentioned specifically by Mary Shelley as part of the summer reading list leading up to an ad hoc ghost story contest on a rainy day in Switzerland—and the resultant novel Frankenstein—and its reanimated construct.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Galvani" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Ga</span><span class="invisible">lvani</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bioelectricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bioelectricity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a></p>