On This Day in Science History – December 4 – Luigi Galvani (About Chemistry)
December 4th marks the passing of Luigi Galvani. Galvani was an Italian physician who first identified electrical activity in living tissue. Towards the end of the 18th Century, one of the newest and cutting edge scientific fields of study was electricity….
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A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.
- Carl Sagan
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