 Shelley incorporated a number of different sources into her work, one of which was the Promethean myth from Ovid.The influence of John Milton's "Paradise Lost", and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", are also clearly evident within the novel.Mary is likely to have acquired some ideas for Frankenstein's character from Humphry Davy's book "Elements of Chemical Philosophy", in which he had written that "science has ... bestowed upon man powers which may be called creative; which have enabled him to change and modify the beings around him ...".