Curiosity And Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment,9780754641025

Curiosity And Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

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ISBN13: 9780754641025
ISBN10: 0754641023
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-10-28
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

'Curiosity' and 'wonder' are topics of increasing interest and importance to Renaissance and Enlightenment historians. Conspicuous in a host of disciplines from history of science and technology to history of art, literature, and society, both have assumed a prominent place in studies of the Early Modern period. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to investigate the various manifestations of, and relationships between, 'curiosity' and 'wonder' from the 16th to the 18th century. Focused case studies on texts, objects and individuals explore the multifaceted natures of these themes, highlighting the intense fascination and continuing scrutiny to which each has been subjected over three centuries.

Table of Contents

List of figures vii
Notes on contributors xi
Preface xv
1 Introduction
1(20)
Alexander Marr
2 'Out of the frying pan...': Curiosity, danger and the poetics of witness in the Renaissance traveller's tale
21(22)
Wes Williams
3 The metaphorical collecting of curiosities in early modern France and Germany
43(20)
Neil Kenny
4 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
63(24)
Adriana Turpin
5 The jocund cabinet and the melancholy museum in seventeenth-century English literature
87(20)
Claire Preston
6 Curious knowledge and wonder-working wisdom in the occult works of Heinrich Khunrath
107(24)
Peter Forshaw
7 Enthusiasm and 'damnable curiosity': Meric Casaubon and John Dee
131(18)
Stephen Clucas
8 Gentille curiosité: Wonder-working and the culture of automata in the late Renaissance
149(22)
Alexander Marr
9 Nosce teipsum: Curiosity, the humoural body and the culture of therapeutics in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England
171(22)
Deborah Harkness
10 Back from wonderland: Jean Antoine Nollet's Italian tour (1749) 193(20)
Paola Bertucci
11 Curiosity and the lusus naturae: The case of 'Proteus' Hill 213(38)
George Rousseau
Epilogue 251(4)
George Rousseau
Index 255

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