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Document Ethics and natural philosophy in the public representation of the scientific experiment: A reading of Wright of Derby’s An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) in the light of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Christophe Boucherie

Joseph Wright of Derby’s painting of the Air Pump has often been described as a representation of the scientific enquiry and natural philosophy of...

Mary Shelley, ethics view
Document The Stamp of Life’: New Imaginative Realities in the Late Georgian Era by James Turner

The turbulent progress of natural philosophy in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries created an intellectual landscape rife for...

Long 19th century, Mary Shelley, automaton, chess view
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