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Science 1 October 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5693, p. 59
DOI: 10.1126/science.1103038
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
On the Power to Create

A review by Iwan Rhys Morus

Promethean Ambitions Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature
by William R. Newman
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004. 349 pp. $30, £21. ISBN 0-226-57712-0.

In this consideration of the history of European alchemy, Newman explores the relations between the natural and artificial and the links between art and science.
The reviewer is in the School of Anthropological Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK. E-mail: i.morus{at}qub.ac.uk

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)