William R. Newman is Distinguished Professor and Ruth N. Halls Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Indiana University. His many books include
Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution and
Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
5 Ebooks par William Newman
William Newman: Newton the Alchemist
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 …
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David Pryde & Michael J Palmer: Orphan Drugs and Rare Diseases
Orphan drugs are designated drug substances that are intended to treat rare or ‘orphan’ diseases. More than 7000 rare diseases are known that collectively affect some 6-7% of the developed world’s po …
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William Newman: Green Chemistry
The book provides the basic framework of knowledge about Green …
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Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent & William R. Newman: Artificial and the Natural
Notions of nature and art as they have been defined and redefined in Western culture, from the Hippocratic writers and Aristotle of Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century chemistry and twenty-first …
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William R. Newman: Atoms and Alchemy
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 …
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