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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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology
Abbreviations
Introduction. From Alchemical Gold to Synthetic Humans: The Problem of the Artificial and the Natural
1. Imitating, Challenging, and Perfecting Nature: The Arts and Alchemy in European Antiquity
2. Alchemy and the Art-Nature Debate
3. The Visual Arts and Alchemy
4. Artificial Life and the Homunculus
5. The Art-Nature Debate and the Issue of Experiment
Afterword. Further Ramifications of the Art-Nature Debate
References
Index
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