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Promethean Ambitions

by William R. Newman

2004 352 pages eng

Science History
Medieval History Art, renaissance Alchemy History of Medicine Nature Science History

"In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman uses alchemy to investigate 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 th…

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