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The Ambiguous Frog: The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity by Marcello Pera (Hardcover, 2016)

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How and why do scientists choose among empirically equivalent theories?. Luigi Galvani, a doctor and physiologist, believed that he had discovered animal electricity (electrical body fluid existing naturally in a state of disequilibrium), while the physicist Alessandro Volta attributed the contractions to ordinary physical electricity.