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ALDINI, GIOVANNI (1762-1834)

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ALDINI, GIOVANNI (1762-1834) , See also:Italian physicist, See also:born at See also:Bologna on the loth of See also:April 1762, was a See also:brother of the statesman See also:Count See also:Antonio Aldini (1756-1826) and See also:nephew of L. See also:Galvani, whose See also:treatise on See also:muscular See also:electricity he edited with notes in 1791. He became See also:professor of physics at Bologna in 1798, in See also:succession to his teacher Sebastiano Canterzani (1734-1819). His scientific See also:work was chiefly concerned with galvanism and its medical applications, with the construction and See also:illumination of lighthouses, and with experiments for preserving human See also:life and material See also:objects from destruction by See also:fire. He wrote in See also:French and See also:English in addition to his native Italian. In recognition of his. merits, the See also:emperor of See also:Austria made him a See also:knight of the See also:Iron See also:Crown and a councillor of See also:state at See also:Milan, where he died on the 17th of See also:January 1834. He See also:left by will a considerable sum to found a school of natural See also:science for artisans at Bologna.

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