Curiosity and wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

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1. Introduction / Alexander Marr -- 2. 'Out of the frying pan ... ' : curiosity, danger and the poetics of witness in the Renaissance traveller's tale / Wes Williams -- 3. The metaphorical collecting of curiosities in early modern France and Germany / 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 / Adriana Turpin -- 5. The jocund cabinet and the melancholy museum in seventeenth-century English literature / Claire Preston -- 6. Curious knowledge and wonder-working wisdom in the occult works of Heinrich Khunrath / Peter Forshaw -- 7. Enthusiasm and 'damnable curiosity' : Meric Casaubon and John Dee / Stephen Clucas -- 8. Gentille curiosité : wonder-working and the culture of automata in the late Renaissance / Alexander Marr -- 9. Nosce teipsum : curiosity, the humoural body and the culture of therapeutics in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England / Deborah Harkness -- 10. Back from wonderland : Jean Antoine Nollet's Italian tour (1749) / Paola Bertucci -- 11. Curiosity and the lusus naturae : the case of 'Proteus' Hill / George Rousseau. 1. Introduction / Alexander Marr -- 2. 'Out of the frying pan ... ' : curiosity, danger and the poetics of witness in the Renaissance traveller's tale / Wes Williams -- 3. The metaphorical collecting of curiosities in early modern France and Germany / 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 / Adriana Turpin -- 5. The jocund cabinet and the melancholy museum in seventeenth-century English literature / Claire Preston -- 6. Curious knowledge and wonder-working wisdom in the occult works of Heinrich Khunrath / Peter Forshaw -- 7. Enthusiasm and 'damnable curiosity' : Meric Casaubon and John Dee / Stephen Clucas -- 8. Gentille curiosité : wonder-working and the culture of automata in the late Renaissance / Alexander Marr -- 9. Nosce teipsum : curiosity, the humoural body and the culture of therapeutics in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England / Deborah Harkness -- 10. Back from wonderland : Jean Antoine Nollet's Italian tour (1749) / Paola Bertucci -- 11. Curiosity and the lusus naturae : the case of 'Proteus' Hill / George Rousseau.