Promethean Ambitions
Alchemy And the Quest to Perfect Nature
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Univ of Chicago Pr
USA
2005
Paperback
333
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219898
978-0-226-57524-7
0-226-57524-1
Alchemy; History.
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In "Promethean Ambitions," William R. Newman uses alchemy as a means to discuss the thinning boundary between the natural and the artificial. Focusing primarily on the period between 1200 and 1700, Newman examines the labors of pioneering alchemists and the impassioned--and often negative--responses to their efforts. Newman also shows that alchemy was not an unformed and capricious precursor to chemistry; it was an art founded on coherent philosophical and empirical principles--with vocal supporters and even louder critics--that attracted individuals of first-rate intellect.
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