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That's alchemy!
Let's condense things: The point of alchemy for most people over the ages was a] turn lead into gold; 2] create a lizard out of potion; or, 3 ]make a little man arise from a potion. I've always missed the point, and saddled up to a subsidiary angle. Alchemy has been of interest TO ME because it was probably the last specific point where art and science were of one essence. If we were to return to the alchemist era, we might be able to start over and evolve things out a little differently this time, with science and art better entwained; but alchemy - and medieval science, for that matter -- is a morass, and you cant go back. Any hoo, these issues are dealt with in Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature by William R. Newman [of U of Chi], reviewed at American Scientist. see related link
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Art versus Nature - American Scientist Online, Nov-Dec 2004
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