... inspiration was Luigi Galvani, an Italian physician of the 18th century, who discovered in 1780, that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by a spark of electricity. This began the way for scientific research and scientific belief; one of the first steps into the study of bioelectricity, a field that, still today, studies the electrical patterns and signals of the nervous system. Mary Shelley was intrigued by ... the idea of electrical current being used to bring a dead ... ...

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