The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany
Neil (, Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Cambridge.) Kenny
Oxford University Press, 2004
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Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, institutions and writers discussed curiosity. This book investigates that obsession in a new way, developing a language-based approach that contributes to debates about the kinds of knowledge that we can have of the past.
- ISBN-13
- 9780199271368
- ISBN-10
- 0199271364
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2004
- Publication date
- 2004-07-08
- Pages
- 500
- Dimensions
- 225x146x34
- Weight
- 702