She recorded her debt to the daring speculations of Erasmus Darwin, Charles's grandfather, about the spontaneous creation of life, and to the electrical researches of Aldini's uncle LuigiGalvani.
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They began with dead frogs, whose sciatic nerves had been stimulated to make their legs twitch by no less a scientist than LuigiGalvani, the first to look into the matter, in 1771.