Why thousands of volunteers are transcribing the notebooks of the scientist who inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
By Alexis Wolf, Research Associate on the Davy Notebooks Project, Lancaster University
Andrew Lacey, Senior Research Associate on the Davy Notebooks Project, Lancaster University
Davy’s famous lectures on the animating power of electricity may have inspired a young Mary Shelley as she came up with the idea for Frankenstein.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023