Promethean Ambitions
Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature
352 pages, 8 color plates, 20 halftones 6 x 9
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2004
Cloth $32.00
ISBN: 9780226577128
Published June 2004
Paper $25.00
ISBN: 9780226575247
Published November 2005
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William R. Newman is the Ruth N. Halls Professor in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. He is the author of Gehennical Fire and, with Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemy Tried in the Fire, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
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