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

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Description:

xvi, 265 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Summary:

An edited collection of essays focusing on topics of 'curiosity' and 'wonder' in relation to the history of art, science and society.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

0754641023 (alk. paper)
9780754641025 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Renaissance Miscellanea.
Enlightenment Miscellanea.
Civilization, Modern Miscellanea.
History, Modern Miscellanea.
Renaissance Miscellanées.
Siècle des Lumières Miscellanées.
Histoire moderne et contemporaine Miscellanées.
02.01 history of science and culture.
Civilization, Modern
Enlightenment
History, Modern
Renaissance
Wonderen.
Curiosa.
Verzamelingen.
Europa (geografie)
1500-1799

Form/genre:

miscellanies.
Trivia and miscellanea
Miscellanées.

Added entries:

Evans, R. J. W. (Robert John Weston), 1943-
Marr, Alexander, 1978-
Evans, Robert John Weston

Holdings:

Location: Library main 248387
Call No.: BIB 177933
Status: Available

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