Promethean ambitions: alchemy and the quest to perfect nature
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index 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 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 |
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