Curiosity and wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006. |
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| Description: | xvi, 265 p. : ill., plans ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6167532 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 'Out of the frying pan...': curiosity, danger, and the poetics of witness in the Renaissance traveller's tale
- The metaphorical collecting of curiosities in early modern France and Germany
- 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
- The jocund cabinet and the melancholy museum in 17th-century English literature
- Curious knowledge and wonder-working wisdom in the Occult Works of
- Enthusiasm and 'damnable curiosity'
- Gentille curiosite: wonder-working and the culture of automata in the late Renaissance
- Nosce teipsum: curiosity, the humoural body, and the culture of therapeutics in late 16th- and early 17th-century England
- Back from wonderland: Jean Antoine Nollet's Italian tour (1749)
- Curiosity and the lusus naturae: the case of 'Proteus' Hill
- Epilogue
- Index