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" Promethean ambitions : "
William R. Newman.
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BL
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1008960
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b763330
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Newman, William R.,1955-
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Promethean ambitions : : alchemy and the quest to perfect nature /\ William R. Newman.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, ©2004.
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1 online resource (xv, 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations (some color)
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0226577139
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: 9780226577135
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0226577120
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9780226577128
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note On Terminology; Abbreviations; Introduction: From Alchemical Gold to Synthetic Humans: The Problem of the Artificial and the Natural; Chapter One: Imitating, Challenging, and Perfecting Nature: The Arts and Alchemy in European Antiquity; Chapter Two: Alchemy and the Art-Nature Debate; Chapter Three: The Visual Arts and Alchemy; Chapter Four: Artificial Life and the Homunculus; Chapter Five: The Art-Nature Debate and the Issue of Experiment; Afterword: Further Ramifications of the Art-Nature Debate; References; Index.
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In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possibility of artificial life and the dangers of tinkering with nature more generally were shared by opponents of alchemy long before genetic science delivered us a cloned sheep named Dolly. In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman ambitiously uses alchemy to investigate the thinning boundary between.
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Alchemy-- History.
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Arts, Renaissance.
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Science, Renaissance.
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Alchemy.
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History of Medicine.
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History, Medieval.
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Nature.
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Alchimie-- Histoire.
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Arts de la Renaissance.
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Sciences de la Renaissance.
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Alchemie
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Alchemy.
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Arts, Renaissance.
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Chemie
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Kunst
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Natur
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Naturwissenschaften
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SCIENCE-- History.
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Science, Renaissance.
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Alchemie.
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Natuurwetenschappen.
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| Dewey Classification
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509.024
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| LC Classification
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Q125.2.N49 2004eb
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2004 K-651
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WZ 54N556p 2004
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VB 2330rvk
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