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245 00 a| Curiosity and wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment /c| edited by R.J.W. Evans and Alexander Marr.;

300 a| xvi, 265 pages :b| illustrations, plans ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

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338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| 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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650 0 a| Enlightenmentv| Miscellanea.=| ^A18215;

650 0 a| Civilization, Modernv| Miscellanea.=| ^A15821;

650 0 a| History, Modernv| Miscellanea.=| ^A703598;

700 1 a| Evans, R. J. W.q| (Robert John Weston),d| 1943-=| ^A51501;

700 1 a| Marr, Alexander,d| 1978-=| ^A703599;

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

Other author	Evans, R. J. W. (Robert John Weston), 1943-
Other author	Marr, Alexander, 1978-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2006.
Description	xvi, 265 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subjects	Renaissance--Miscellanea. Enlightenment--Miscellanea. Civilization, Modern--Miscellanea. History, Modern--Miscellanea.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2005037430
ISBN	0754641023 (alk. paper)
ISBN	9780754641025

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

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