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William R. Newman

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in The United States

March 03, 1955

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William R. Newman is the Ruth Halls Professor in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University and the author of Gehennical Fire and Promethean Ambitions, as well as the coauthor of Alchemy Tried in the Fire (which was awarded the 2005 Pfizer Prize for the best book in the History of Science), all published by the University of Chicago Press.

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William R. Newman’s books

Average rating: 4.25 · 132 ratings · 9 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature 4.07 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) by William R. Newman (Editor), Anthony Grafton (Editor) 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Summa Perfectionis of Pseudo-Geber: A Critical Edition, Translation, and Study (Collection de Travaux de l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, 35) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Artificial and the Natural: An Evolving Polarity (Dibner Institute in the History of Science and Technology) by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Editor), William R. Newman (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories (Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, 1) by William R. Newman (Editor), Christoph Lüthy (Contributor), John Murdoch (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Relationship Between Horizontal Moisture Convergence and Severe Storm Occurrences 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Traditions of Analysis and Synthesis (Archimedes, 73) by William R. Newman (editor), Jutta Schickore (editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars