Curiosity and wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / edited by R.J.W. Evans and Alexander Marr.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Evans, R. J. W. (Robert John Weston), 1943-
Marr, Alexander, 1978-
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006], ©2006.
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Physical Description:xvi, 265 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Out of the frying pan : curiosity, danger and the poetics of witness in the Renaissance traveller's tale / Wes Williams -- The metaphorical collecting of curiosities in early modern France and Germany / Neil Kenny -- The New World collections of Duke Cosimo I de'Medici and their role in the creation of a Kunst- and Wunderkammer in the Palazzo Vecchio / Adriana Turpin -- The jocund cabinet and the melancholy museum in seventeenth-century English literature / Claire Preston -- Curious knowledge and wonder-working wisdom in the occult works of Heinrich Khunrath / Peter Forshaw -- Enthusiasm and 'damnable curiosity' : Meric Casaubon and John Dee / Stephen Clucas -- Gentille curiosité : wonder-working and the culture of automata in the late Renaissance / Alexander Marr -- Nosce teipsum : curiosity, the humoural body and the culture of therapeutics in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England / Deborah Harkness -- Back from wonderland : Jean Antoine Nollet's Italian tour (1749) / Paola Bertucci -- Curiosity and the lusus naturae : the case of 'Proteus' Hill / George Rousseau. 
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