All Curls and Pearls
Lorraine Daston: Why are we so curious?, 23 June 2005
The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany
by Neil Kenny.
Oxford, 484 pp., £68, July 2004,0 19 927136 4 Show More
by Neil Kenny.
Oxford, 484 pp., £68, July 2004,
“... learned and lay people alike. Curiosity became an object of intense, even obsessive attention. Neil Kenny is not the first to note the early modern preoccupation with curiosity, but his book, though restricted to France and Germany, is the most comprehensive and careful study of it to date. The book’s appearance is timely, now that once again ... ”