MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aCB361$b.C87 2006
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245 00 $aCuriosity and wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment /$cedited by R.J.W. Evans and Alexander Marr.
260 $aAldershot, England ;$aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate,$cc2006.
300 $axvi, 265 p. :$bill., plans ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aOut 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.
650 0 $aRenaissance$vMiscellanea.
650 0 $aEnlightenment$vMiscellanea.
650 0 $aCivilization, Modern$vMiscellanea.
650 0 $aHistory, Modern$vMiscellanea.
700 1 $aEvans, Robert John Weston.
700 1 $aMarr, Alexander,$d1978-
994 $aC0$bXIM