This article analyzes the role of William Gull, the Jack the Ripper figure in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's "From Hell", as a physician and scientist. A "mad scientist", Gull unites modern sciences and pre-modern forms of science like magic and divination. Lines are drawn to C.H. Hinton's theory of the 4th dimension, and ultimately to Moore's concept of imagination and the comics form.
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