Mixing the ‘magic’ heart with Dr Frankenstein’s ‘science’, I think was alluding to Alchemy.
In Shelley’s novel, Dr F was studying Alchemy…he abandoned his studies to persue his ‘bringing back the dead’ theory and make it a reality.
Alchemy is chemistry, mixed with a little mythology, religion, sprirituality and, to some degree, magic.
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