The Spark of the Modern Age: Alessandro Volta and the Birth of the Battery

When the silent forces of nature met a daring mind, the world found the power to move beyond its limits.

‘The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination [logical reasoning] not vice versa.’
Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
(Cited as VO, 7:292, Collezione dell'opere del cavaliere conte Alessandro Volta, Vol. 7, 292)
Quoted in Marcello Pera, La Rani Ambigua (1986) as translated by Jonat…