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Natural Philosophy

The Philosopher’s Quest

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Mark Waddell

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Hiro Hirai

Hiro Hirai

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Bruce Moran

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The New Science board game

New Science, Old Tricks

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Detail from An Alchemist’s Laboratory

Gold, Secrecy, and Prestige

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<em>Essai sur l’electricité des corps</em>
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Joseph Priestley
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Lavoisier. Engraved by François Séraphin Delpech, after a drawing by Belliart, after the painting by Jacques Louis David.

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
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John Dalton, F.R.S., engraved by William Henry Worthington after an 1814 painting by William Allen, published June 25, 1823, in Manchester and London. Note the charts with Dalton’s atomic symbols lying on the table.

John Dalton
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The Whole of Nature and the Mirror of Art
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Transmutations: Alchemy in Art
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Pasteur studying the diseases of wine in 1863.

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Making a homunculus from an 1899 edition of Goethe's Faust

Man Made: A History of Synthetic Life

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Francesco Redi

True Science, Fake History

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Recipes and Extracts on Alchemy, Medicine, Metal-Working, Cosmetics, Veterinary Science, Agriculture, Wine-Making, and Other Subjects

The Philosophers’ Stove

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Query 31 in Opticks

Last Words

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Novum Organum

Roads to Revolution

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Engraving of Robert Boyle, by John Faber Jr.

The Natural History of Robert Boyle

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Detail of frontispiece from The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes

London Calling

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A Revolution in the Scientific Revolution

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Paracelsus Portrait

Paracelsus, Healer of the German Reformation

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Ibn Butlan’s Risalat da`wat al-atibba

Al-Kimiya: Notes on Arabic Alchemy

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