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| 100 | 1 | _aNewman, William Royall. | |
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_aPromethean ambitions _h[electronic resource] : _balchemy and the quest to perfect nature / _cWilliam R. Newman. |
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_aChicago : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _cc2004. |
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_a1 online resource (xv, 333 p., [8] p. of plates) : _bill. (some col.) |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aList 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. | |
| 520 | _aIn 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. | ||
| 588 | _aDescription based on print version record. | ||
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_iPrint version: _aNewman, William Royall. _tPromethean ambitions. _dChicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004 _z0226577120 _w(DLC) 2003019600 _w(OCoLC)53006766 |
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