William R. Newman is Ruth Halls Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the coeditor of Secrets of Nature (MIT Press, 1999) and author or editor of several other books.
6 หนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์โดย William R. Newman
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 cen …
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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 Alche …
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William R. Newman & Lawrence M. Principe: Alchemy Tried in the Fire
Winner of the 2005 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. What actually took place in the private laboratory of a mid-seventeenth century alchemist? How did he direct his quest after the s …
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George Starkey: Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence
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 exp …
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William R. Newman: Promethean Ambitions
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 …
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Matthew D. Eddy & Seymour H. Mauskopf: Osiris, Volume 29
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, …
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