Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature

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4. Geheimnuss Aller Seiner Geheimnusse, 1770

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Geheimnuss Aller Seiner Geheimnusse (Secret of All His Secrets), 1770

Author: Paracelsus (1493–1541)

Courtesy National Library of Medicine

During his university days, Victor Frankenstein apprentices himself to Professor Waldheim, who praises both Agrippa and Paracelsus as “men whose indefatigable zeal provided the foundation of modern knowledge.”