Electrical experiment with ox's head Size:XL: 100 x 70cm 16th August 1979

16th August 1979

Tycho Brahe

' Field Marshall Sir John Fox Burgoyne

Standing behind is his assistant Peter Taylor

Electrical experiment with ox's head Size:XL: 100 x 70cm 16th August 1979'The head of an ox thrown into convulsive motions by the influence of six galvanic batteries', frontispiece to Elements of galvanism, in theory and practice, by Charles Henry Wilkinson (London, 1804) the 'Lecturer on Galvanism in Soho square'. Elements of was an early history of galvanism and Galvani's experiments in the 1780s and 1790s, and a practical manual showing how to perform experiments in 'animal electricity'. Original: engraving. 1804