In Frankenstein, what is natural philosophy?

... 1660 and still the principal avenue for publishing scientific discoveries in English during Mary Shelley's day, was called Philosophical Transactions. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in the heyday of British chemistry, and it is this branch of natural philosophy that is most implicated in Victor's education and obsessiveness. read more

Frankenstein is a warning leveled against logical positivists by the 19 year old genius Mary Shelley. This bizarre belief that science can be and do anything which has had a recurrence in the late 90’s early 2000’s, is something we need to approach with serious caution. read more

Natural philosophy What we now loosely call science—meaning the physical sciences—was until the mid-nineteenth century referred to under the rubric of"natural philosophy." The long-lived journal of the Royal Society, begun under Charles II in 1660 and still the principal avenue for publishing scientific discoveries in English during Mary Shelley's day, was called Philosophical Transactions. read more