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Frankenstein and the Birth of Science: The Era of Ingenuity that Electrified Science and Fiction,Used
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On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, this fascinating study explores how the real science of her times influenced Mary Shelleys classic work of science fiction.Mary Shelley grew up surrounded by the eras prominent scientific thinkers, and conceived Frankenstein in a time of rapid scientific changeincluding debates on the reanimation of corpses and the elixir of life. This engrossing book offers insight into the world of late eighteenth and early nineteenthcentury science through the prism of Shelleys seminal novelthe first work of science fiction everrevealing how the monster was conceived, positing the reallife basis for Victor Frankenstein, and describing in vivid detail the experiments that might have led to the Creatures birth. It also explores incarnations of the monster since Frankenstein was first published and modern interpretations of the mad scientist, while looking ahead to such scientific wonders as permanent bionic limbs and implants.
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