| ISBN |
0754641023 (alk. paper) |
| 9780754641025 |
| Title |
Curiosity and wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / edited by R.J.W. Evans and Alexander Marr |
| Publisher |
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2006 |
| Physical desc. |
xvi, 265 p. ; ill., plans ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. -- Epilogue / George Rousseau. |
| Subject |
Renaissance -- Miscellanea |
| Enlightenment -- Miscellanea |
| Civilization, Modern -- Miscellanea |
| History, Modern |
| Curiosities and wonders -- Early works to 1800 |
| Cabinets of curiosities -- Europe -- History |
| Curiosities and wonders -- History |
| Curiosities and wonders -- Europe -- History |
| Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History |
| Science -- Europe -- History |
| Europe -- Intellectual life -- 16th century |
| Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century |
| Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century |
| Added name(s) |
Evans, Robert John Weston ed. |
| Marr, Alexander 1978- ed. |
