Curiosity and wonder from the renaissance to the enligthenment
Curiosity and wonder from the renaissance to the enligthenment
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CONTENTS
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
PREFACE
Robert Evans
INTRODUCTION
Alexander Marr
1. ¿Out of the frying pan¿¿: Curiosity, danger, and the poetics of witness in the Renaissance traveller´s tale
Wes Williams
2. The metaphorical collecting of curiosities in early modern France and Germany
Neil Kenny
3. 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, or: Did the Medici ever create a Kunstkammer?
Adriana Turpin
4. The jocund cabinet and the melancholy museum in seventeenth-century English literature
Claire Preston
5. Curious knowledge and wonder-working wisdom in the occult works of Heinrich Khunrath
Peter Forshaw
6. Enthusiasm and ¿damnable curiosity¿: Meric Casaubon and John Dee
Stephen Clucas 7. Gentille curiosité: Wonder-working and the culture of automata in the late Renaissance
Alexander Marr
8. Nosce te ipsum: Curiosity, the humoural body, and the culture of therapeutics in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England
Deborah Harkness
9. Back from wonderland: Jean Antoine Nollet¿s Italian tour (1749)
Paola Bertucci
10. Curiosity and the lusus naturae: The case of ¿Proteus¿ Hill
George Rousseau
EPILOGUE
George Rousseau
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
PREFACE
Robert Evans
INTRODUCTION
Alexander Marr
1. ¿Out of the frying pan¿¿: Curiosity, danger, and the poetics of witness in the Renaissance traveller´s tale
Wes Williams
2. The metaphorical collecting of curiosities in early modern France and Germany
Neil Kenny
3. 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, or: Did the Medici ever create a Kunstkammer?
Adriana Turpin
4. The jocund cabinet and the melancholy museum in seventeenth-century English literature
Claire Preston
5. Curious knowledge and wonder-working wisdom in the occult works of Heinrich Khunrath
Peter Forshaw
6. Enthusiasm and ¿damnable curiosity¿: Meric Casaubon and John Dee
Stephen Clucas 7. Gentille curiosité: Wonder-working and the culture of automata in the late Renaissance
Alexander Marr
8. Nosce te ipsum: Curiosity, the humoural body, and the culture of therapeutics in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England
Deborah Harkness
9. Back from wonderland: Jean Antoine Nollet¿s Italian tour (1749)
Paola Bertucci
10. Curiosity and the lusus naturae: The case of ¿Proteus¿ Hill
George Rousseau
EPILOGUE
George Rousseau
