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1. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 526833How Real-Life Science Inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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   Feb 8, 2018 · Erasmus Darwin is the only real-life scientist to be mentioned by name in the introduction to Shelley's novel. ... She adds: "Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated; galvanism had given token of ...

2. blogs.dickinson.edu › romnat › 2011/06/10Erasmus Darwin and the Frankenstein “Mistake” | Romantic ...

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   Jun 10, 2011 · Erasmus Darwin and the Frankenstein “Mistake”. Mary Shelley refers directly to Erasmus Darwin in the “Introduction” to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein. She says: Many and long were the conversations between Lord Byron and Shelley, to which I was a devout but nearly silent listener. During one of these, various philosophical doctrines ...

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   Did Darwin study galvanism?

   • Darwin studied galvanism, the contraction of muscles when stimulated with electricity. Shelley refers to Darwin ". . . who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some extraordinary means, it began to move with voluntary motion." It really wasn't the pasta, it was vorticelli, a tiny animal.

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   Where did Erasmus Darwin Live?

   • Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia; or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening. 1800, London, J. Johnson. Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature; or, The Origin of Society. 1803, London, J. Johnson. Erasmus Darwin House, his home in Lichfield, Staffordshire, is a museum dedicated to him and his life's work.

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   Who invented galvanism?

   • It really wasn't the pasta, it was vorticelli, a tiny animal. The term galvanism came from the work Luigi Galvani, who discovered the phenomenon he called animal electricity. The term was coined by his contemporary Alessandro Volta, who invented the battery.

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   Where is Erasmus Darwin commemorated?

   • Erasmus Darwin is commemorated on one of the Moonstones, a series of monuments in Birmingham .

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4. ncse.ngo › vermicelli-and-vorticellaVermicelli and Vorticella | National Center for Science Education

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   May 26, 2017 · Vermicelli—which, for reasons unknown to me, is a thicker form of spaghetti in Italy but a thinner form in the United States—seems like a bad candidate for reanimation anyhow. Fortunately, if you look at the additional notes to Erasmus Darwin’s The Temple of Nature (1803)—he couldn’t resist the impulse to annotate his poetry—you ...

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Erasmus_DarwinErasmus Darwin - Wikipedia

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   Early life and education Stone-cast bust of Erasmus Darwin, by W. J. Coffee, c. 1795 Darwin's House in Lichfield, now a museum dedicated to his life and work.. Darwin was born in 1731 at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, near Newark-on-Trent, England, the youngest of seven children of Robert Darwin of Elston (1682–1754), a lawyer and physician, and his wife Elizabeth Hill (1702–97).

   • Children: 14
   • Parents: Robert Darwin of Elston, Elizabeth Hill

   • Resting place: All Saints Church, Breadsall

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7. www.businessinsider.com › mary-shelleyMary Shelley's Frankenstein May Have Been Inspired by Electricity

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   Feb 9, 2024 · In 1816, the soon-to-be-married couple vacationed at Lake Geneva. During this trip, the poet Lord Byron and Percy Shelley discussed Erasmus Darwin’s experiments, galvanism (the idea that animals ...

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8. theconversation.com › frankenstein-at-200-and-whyFrankenstein at 200 and why Mary Shelley was far more than ...

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   Jan 23, 2018 · Frankenstein, drawing upon the scientific advancements of its age, Erasmus Darwin’s early theory of evolutionary development in the 1790s, vitality, galvanism and Davy’s quest to determine the ...

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10. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 19855Who Was Dr. Frankenstein? | Mental Floss

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    Oct 14, 2008 · Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin) was a friend of Mary Shelley's father, William Godwin. Shelley mentioned Dr. Darwin in the preface to her novel. Darwin studied galvanism, the ...