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Curiosity and Forbidden Knowledge by phphd is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document summarizes a journal article from 2001 about how curiosity was viewed in early modern England and how it underwent a transformation. It discusses how curiosity was traditionally seen as an intellectual vice from patristic times through the 17th century. Anything curious was deemed illicit, useless or unknowable. Francis Bacon

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phphd

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