Overview :In recent years scholars have begun to acknowledge that the occult sciences were not marginal enterprises but an integral part of the worldv... Read More
Overview :In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman uses alchemy as a means to discuss the thinning boundary between the natural and the artificial. ... Read More
Overview :Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded th... Read More
Overview :Winner of the 2005 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. What actually took place in the private laboratory of a mid-seventeent... Read More