Science and Fiction
"Mary Shelley took inspiration for Victor von Frankenstein from the work and lives of four men. Luigi Galvani, who experimented with electricity on dead animals to see what happened; his nephew Giovanni Aldini, who worked with electricity on dead human cadavers; Andrew Ure, a Scottish scientist who built on Luigi Galvani's experiments and also worked with cadavers. And finally, the infamous Konrad Dippel. The man who is strongly linked to the Frankenstein story even though his macabre experiments was done with alchemy rather than electricity." - Atlantis Blog
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GalvanismLuigi Galvani and Giovanni Aldani were the scientists who gave birth to the popular science of "galvanism". This was re-enaminating dead animals and humans with either electricity or chemical reactions.
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