Pieced Together: The Influences in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This is an illustration from the book of Frankenstein at work in his laboratory. It is a black and white sketch of Frankenstein over the skeleton of The Monster. There are science instruments surrounding the skeleton.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke is about the tabula rasa. The tabula rasa is also referred to as the blank slate. It is the idea that all beings are born without knowledge, before experience. This connects to Frankenstein's…

De Hvmani Corporis Fabrica Liber I (On the Structure of the Human Body, Book I) is an image within Image within De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the Fabric of the Human Body in Seven Books). This image shows a detailed visual…

This is an illustration of the line "With my cross-bow/ I shot the Albatross" from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." The work was done in black and white and the background depicts an icy, rock-strewn ocean. An albatross is flying above a mast and…

In the letter “The Nervous System that Connects the Voluntary Muscles with the Brain,” author Charles Bell shows how the human nervous system can be stimulated by electricity in order to produce movement and “humanlike” activity, which is applied to…

This item details how Galvanic combinations are created and produced. The chapter talks about the chemical changes and the construction that occurs during Galvanism.

Excerpts on the laws of England, regarding parent-child obligations, inheritance and lineage, legitimacy, and bastardy.