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رده
Q125.2 .N49 2004eb
Q125
.
2
.
N49
2004eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0226577139
(Number (ISBN
9780226577135
Erroneous ISBN
0226577120
Erroneous ISBN
9780226577128
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b763330
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Promethean ambitions :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
alchemy and the quest to perfect nature /
First Statement of Responsibility
William R. Newman.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xv, 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations (some color)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note On Terminology; Abbreviations; Introduction: From Alchemical Gold to Synthetic Humans: The Problem of the Artificial and the Natural; Chapter One: Imitating, Challenging, and Perfecting Nature: The Arts and Alchemy in European Antiquity; Chapter Two: Alchemy and the Art-Nature Debate; Chapter Three: The Visual Arts and Alchemy; Chapter Four: Artificial Life and the Homunculus; Chapter Five: The Art-Nature Debate and the Issue of Experiment; Afterword: Further Ramifications of the Art-Nature Debate; References; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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 possibility of artificial life and the dangers of tinkering with nature more generally were shared by opponents of alchemy long before genetic science delivered us a cloned sheep named Dolly. In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman ambitiously uses alchemy to investigate the thinning boundary between.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Promethean ambitions.
International Standard Book Number
0226577120
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Alchemy-- History.
Arts, Renaissance.
Science, Renaissance.
Alchemy.
History of Medicine.
History, Medieval.
Nature.
Alchimie-- Histoire.
Arts de la Renaissance.
Sciences de la Renaissance.
Alchemie
Alchemie.
Alchemy.
Arts, Renaissance.
Chemie
Kunst
Natur
Naturwissenschaften
Natuurwetenschappen.
SCIENCE-- History.
Science, Renaissance.
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
SCI-- 034000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
509
.
024
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
Q125
.
2
Book number
.
N49
2004eb
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
VB
2330
Class number
2004
K-651
Class number
WZ
54
Book Number
N556p
2004
System Code
rvk
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Newman, William R.,1955-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201204224916.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
pn
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
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