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Nature 394, 529 (6 August 1998) | doi:10.1038/28966
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Martin Kemp1
Abstract
Electricity seemed new and magical, its limits not yetknown: could it really arouse the dead? The Frankenstein storyexpressed an era's trepidation at the prospect of discoveringthe secret of life.
The popular image of the magus-scientist who discovers the ultimate key to the creation of life has a long history, from the era of the alchemists to the more alarmist accounts of the recent cloning of Dolly. Never was there a greater sense that the secret of life was in the process of being disclosed than in the late eighteenth century, in the wake of revelations about the life-giving properties of 'oxygenated air' and sensational experiments with electricity.
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