The Scientist Who Inspired Frankenstein 🇬🇧 English Text While the name Luigi Galvani is synonymous with “animal electricity,” the real-life inspiration for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was likely his nephew, the Bolognese scientist Giovanni Aldini. While Galvani studied the twitching of frog legs in his laboratory in Bologna, Aldini took these experiments to a macabre extreme.Continue reading “Luigi Galvani (The Bolognese “Frankenstein”)”
