TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newman,William Royall
TI  - Promethean ambitions: alchemy and the quest to perfect nature 
SN  - 9780226577135 (electronic bk.)
AV  - Q125.2 .N49 2004eb
U1  - 509.024 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Science, Renaissance
KW  - Alchemy
KW  - History
KW  - Arts, Renaissance
KW  - History, Medieval
KW  - History of Medicine
KW  - Nature
KW  - Chemistry
KW  - Science
KW  - Sciences de la Renaissance
KW  - Alchimie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Arts de la Renaissance
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alchemie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Natuurwetenschappen
KW  - Naturwissenschaften
KW  - swd
KW  - Kunst
KW  - Chemie
KW  - Natur
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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