There were also allusions to alchemists that Frankenstein read. The reader had to know that these alchemists wrote about ideas that were at least three hundred years old in order to understand why these readings were rejected by the professors at the university. ... This story took in modern time in order to stress the use of modern science and the rejection of the out-of-date alchemist readings that Frankenstein first studied. ...

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