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  • CARDINAL NEWMAN AND WILLIAM FROUDE, F.R.S.
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    CARDINAL NEWMAN AND WILLIAM FROUDE, F.R.S.
    GORDON HUNTINGTON HARPER / JOHN HENRY NEWMAN / WILLIAM FROUDE F.R.S.
    This is a study of the relationship between Cardinal Newman and William Froude. The one a Catholic convert and the other a scientist and naval engineer. ...

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  • ALCHEMY TRIED IN THE FIRE
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    ALCHEMY TRIED IN THE FIRE
    WILLIAM R. NEWMAN / LAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE
    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 secrets of Nature? What instruments and theoretical principles did he employ? Using, as their guide, the previously misunderstood interactions between Robert Boyle, widely known as...

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  • ATOMS AND ALCHEMY
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    ATOMS AND ALCHEMY
    WILLIAM R. NEWMAN
    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 Alchemy, William R. Newman—a historian widely credited for reviving recent interest in alchemy—exposes the speciousness of these views and challenges widely held beliefs about the origin...

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  • PROMETHEAN AMBITIONS
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    PROMETHEAN AMBITIONS
    WILLIAM R. NEWMAN
    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 generall...

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