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Book Number
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000222652
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ISBN
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 0754641023
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Title
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Curiosity and wonder from the Renaissance to the Englightenment.
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Imprint
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Aldershot, England Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2006.
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Descr.
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xvi, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Bibliogr.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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Introduction / Alexander Marr -- 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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Subject - Lib.Cong.
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Renaissance -- Miscellanea
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Enlightenment -- Miscellanea
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Civilization, Modern -- Miscellanea
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History, Modern -- Miscellanea
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Add.Entry
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Marr, Alexander 1978-
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Williams, Wes
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Kenny, Neil
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Turpin, Adriana
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Preston, Claire
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Forshaw, Peter
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Clucas, Stephen
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Marr, Alexander 1978-
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Harkness, Deborah
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Bertucci, Paola
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Rousseau, George
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Local Information
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Gennadeion, H 234.5/C 37
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Holdings
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Gennadius Library
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