Editing Luigi Galvani (section)

==Legacy==
Galvani's legacy includes:
* 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.  In ''Frankenstein'', Victor studies the principles of galvanism but it is not mentioned in reference to the creation of the Monster.
* Galvani's name also survives in everyday language as the verb 'galvanize' as well as in more specialized terms: [[Galvani potential]], [[galvanic anode]], [[galvanic bath]], [[galvanic cell]], [[galvanic corrosion]], [[galvanic corrosion|galvanic couple]], [[Direct current|galvanic current]], [[galvanic isolation]], [[galvanic series]], [[galvanic skin response]], [[galvanism]], [[galvanization]], [[hot-dip galvanization]], [[galvanometer]], Galvalume, and psycho-galvanic reflex.

[[File:Bologna Statue of Galvani.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Luigi Galvani's [[monument]] in Piazza Luigi Galvani (Luigi Galvani Square), in [[Bologna]]]]

Galvani, according to William Fox, was "by nature courageous and religious." [[Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert]] said of Galvani that he never ended his lessons “without exhorting his hearers and leading them back to the idea of that eternal Providence, which develops, conserves, and circulates life among so many diverse beings.”<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06371c.htm |title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Luigi Galvani|access-date=1 September 2014}}</ref>