Preface by Fabio Bevilacqua and Lucio Fregonese - The “Arms of the Physicist”: Volta and Scientific Instruments, by Giuliano Bellodi and Paolo Brenni - Falling Stars, Instruments and Myths: Volta and Birth of Modern Meteorology, by Marco Ciardi - Volta and the Quantitative Conceptualisation of Electricity: from Electrical Capacity to the Preconception of Ohm’s Law by Jürgen Teichmann - Romagnosi and Volta’s Pile: Early Difficulties in the Interpretation of Voltaic Electricity, by Roberto De Andrade Martins - The Enigma of Volta’s “Contact Tension” and Development of the “Dry Pile”, by Willem Hackmann - Debating the Nature of Voltaic Electricity, 1800-1850, by Nahum Kipnis.
