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Sir Humphry Davy and Frankenstein
Humphry Davy, the noted chemist, and technology evangelist (satirized by Rowlandson above) was a friend of William Godwin, and was also known for his experiments with electricity, including building a truly ginormous voltaic pile around 1806. Remarkably, Davy was also … Continue reading
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Mary Shelley and the Bracknell vegetarians
In among other things, I’ve been continuing to delve into Mary Shelley’s time in Dundee. It’s all taken longer than I meant it to, in part because I bought a couple of books on the subject and one of them … Continue reading
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