Promethean ambitions : alchemy and the quest to perfect nature /

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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 possi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Newman, William R., 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Science, Renaissance.
Alchemy > History.
Arts, Renaissance.
Alchemy.
Medicine, Medieval.
Medicine > History.
Alchemy
History, Medieval
History of Medicine
Nature
Sciences de la Renaissance.
Alchimie > Histoire.
Arts de la Renaissance.
Alchimie.
Médecine médiévale.
Médecine > Histoire.
alchemy.
history of medicine.
SCIENCE > History.
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine
Arts, Renaissance
Science, Renaissance
Naturwissenschaften
Kunst
Alchemie
Chemie
Natur
Alchemie.
Natuurwetenschappen.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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