Menu
Curiosity and wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Enlarge

Curiosity and wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Publication Data

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.

Topics

Catalogue Data

ISBD

Buy a copy

OBNB doesn't sell books, but you may be able to find a copy at one of these websites:

Curiosity and wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. ISBN 9780754641025. Published by Ashgate. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

obnb.uk is a Good Stuff website.