Curiosity in early modem science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5765704 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorraine Daston (0000-0002-0372-4747, Max Planck Society, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 391-404 |
| Publication date | 1995-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Word & Image (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-6286 • E-ISSN: 1943-2178 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02666286.1995.10435928 |
| OpenAlex | W2073126555 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 9 |
In the preface to 'The great instauration' (1620), Francis Bacon retells the biblical story of the Fall in terms more congenial to natural inquiry - Adam and Eve sinned by seeking moral, not 'pure and uncorrupted' natural, knowledge - and then further reassures his readers that even knowledge of what God has hidden from us does not constitute impiety: whereas of the sciences which regard nature, the divine philosopher declares that 'it is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but it is the glory of the King to find a thing out.' Even all though the divine nature took pleasure in the innocent and kindly sport of children playing at hide-and-seek, and vouchsafed of his kindness and goodness to admit the human spirit at that game1
Curiosity · Glory · Human spirit · Kindness · Evolution and Science Education
The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe
The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science
Galileo Reading Qohelet
Curiosity and Artifice in Juan Eusebio Nieremberg’s Natural Philosophy
Urban Observation and Sentiment in James Parkinson’s Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817)
Introduction
Struggling with pictures in the early Académie royale des sciences
Taking Stock at the End of the World
How Themes in Literature Can Inform Sociological Theory, Research, and Teaching
Assembling the Tropics
A Distant Reading of Legal Dissertations from German Universities in the Seventeenth Century
Qualia as Value and Knowledge
The Virtues of Scientific Practice
Studying the echo in the early modern period
Science and the Secrets of Nature
From the secrets of nature to public knowledge
The Factual Sensibility The Origins of Museums
Macrocosmos in Microcosmo
The Ideal and Reality of the Republic of Letters in the Enlightenment
The Aesthetics of British Mercantilism
Unnatural Conceptions
The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke. Robert Hooke , Richard Waller
The Passions and the Interests
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,52 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2025 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |