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Promethean Ambitions
Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature
Häftad, 2005
398 kr
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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 - …
Atoms and Alchemy
Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution
Häftad, 2006
484 kr
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Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the development of rational chemistry. But, in "Atoms and Alchemy", William R. Newman - a historian widely credited for reviving recent interest in alchemy - …
Alchemy Tried in the Fire
Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry
Av William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe
Häftad, 2005
347 kr
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Using the previously misunderstood interactions between Robert Boyle, widely known as "the father of chemistry," and George Starkey, an alchemist and the most prominent American scientific writer before Benjamin Franklin, as their guide, William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principle reveal the …
Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence
Av George Starkey, Lawrence M. Principe m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
2132 kr
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George Starkey—chymistry tutor to Robert Boyle, author of immensely popular alchemical treatises, and probably early America''s most important scientist—reveals in these pages the daily laboratory experimentation of a seventeenth-century alchemist. The editors present in this volume transcriptions …
Promethean Ambitions
Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature
E-bok, 2005
878 kr
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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 …
Gehennical Fire
The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution
Häftad, 2003
450 kr
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Both the quest for natural knowledge and the aspiration to alchemical wisdom played crucial roles in the Scientific Revolution, as William R. Newman demonstrates in this fascinating book about George Starkey (1628-1665), America's first famous scientist. Beginning with Starkey's unusual education …
Gehennical Fire
The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution
Inbunden, 1994
968 kr
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Reputed to have performed miraculous feats in New England—restoring the hair and teeth to an aged lady, bringing a withered peach tree to fruit—Eirenaeus Philalethes was also rumored to be an adept possessor of the alchemical philosophers’ stone. That the man was merely a mythical creation didn’t …
Newton the Alchemist
Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature''s "Secret Fire"
E-bok, 2018
661 kr
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A book that finally demystifies Newton’s experiments in alchemy When Isaac Newton’s alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby’s auction in 1936, the quantity and seeming incoherence of the manuscripts were shocking. No longer the exemplar of Enlightenment rationality, the legendary physicist suddenly …
Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things
Historical Perspectives on Experimental Control
Av Jutta Schickore, William R. Newman
Inbunden, 2024
551 kr
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This open access book provides a historical treatment of scientific control in experimentation in the longue durée. The introduction distinguishes four related strands in the history of experimental control: the development of practices to stabilize experimental conditions; the career of the …
Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things
Historical Perspectives on Experimental Control
Av Jutta Schickore, William R. Newman
Häftad, 2024
442 kr
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This open access book provides a historical treatment of scientific control in experimentation in the longue durée. The introduction distinguishes four related strands in the history of experimental control: the development of practices to stabilize experimental conditions; the career of the …
Traditions of Analysis and Synthesis
Av William R. Newman, Jutta Schickore
Inbunden, 2024
551 kr
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This open access book provides a fresh perspective on analysis and synthesis across several areas of inquiry. The two operations form a primary basis of modern laboratory science, ranging from the spectrographic analysis used in practically every scientific discipline today, to the naming of entire …
Traditions of Analysis and Synthesis
Av William R. Newman, Jutta Schickore
Häftad, 2025
442 kr
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This open access book provides a fresh perspective on analysis and synthesis across several areas of inquiry. The two operations form a primary basis of modern laboratory science, ranging from the spectrographic analysis used in practically every scientific discipline today, to the naming of entire …
Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine
Av Edith Sylla, William R. Newman
Inbunden, 2009
2726 kr
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The studies in this volume present early science in its rich and divergent complexity. Many historians of the Scientific Revolution have used early modern scholasticism to represent pre-seventeenth century science as a whole, but a close look at ancient, medieval, and even early modern scientific …
Osiris, Volume 29
Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
Av Matthew D. Eddy, Seymour H. Mauskopf m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
291 kr
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The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. The alchemist, once marginalized as a quack, now joins the apothecary, miner, humanist, and natural historian as a practitioner of "chymistry." In a similar vein, the chemical …
Secrets of Nature
Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe
Av William R. Newman, Anthony Grafton
Häftad, 2006
694 kr
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