| | William R. Newman: Theology in the Laboratory? New Light on Isaac Newton's Alchemy |
 | | He showed two of Newman's books on alchemy: Gehennical Fire: the Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution (1994), and another written with Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry (2002). |
| | Newman's latest book Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Art-Nature Debate will be published next month by University of Chicago Press. |
| | Professor Michael Friedman of the Philosophy Department introduced William Newman, saying that they met as colleagues while teaching at Indiana University. |
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