from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Curiosities
Early works
Miscellaneous
Early works
Basset, Robert. The Resolver; or, Curiosities of Nature. 1635.
_____. Curiosities of the Cabinet of Nature. London, 1637.
Belon. Observations de plusieurs singularitez. 1588.
Browne, Thomas. Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or enquiries into Very many Received Tenents, And commonly Presumed Truths. 1646.
_____. Pseudodoxia Epidemica. 2nd ed. London: Nathaniel Ekins and Edward Dod, 1650.
_____. Pseudodoxia Epidemica. 3rd ed., rev. London: Nathaniel Ekins, 1658, etc.
_____. Pseudodoxia Epidemica. With Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus. London: Edward Dod, 1658. 1669.
_____. Pseudodoxia Epidemica. With Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus. London: Nathaniel Ekins, 1659.
_____. Pseudodoxia Epidemica. 6th ed. 1672.
_____. Pseudodoxia Epidemica.. In The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Ed. Charles Sayle. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1927. 1.113-351, 2.1-397, 3.1-86.*
_____. Pseudodoxia Epidemica. In Vol. 2 of The Works of Sir Thomas Browe. Ed. Geoffrey Keynes. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1964.
_____. Pseudodoxia Epidemica. Ed. Robin Robbins. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1981.
_____. Pseudodoxia Epidemica. 6th ed. 1672. In Sir Thomas Browne (U of Chicago)
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/pseudodoxia/pseudodoxia.shtml
2009
_____. "Musæum clausum or Bibliotheca Abscondita: Containing some remarkable Books, Antiquities, Pictures and Rarities of several kinds, scarce or never seen by any man now living." In Certain Miscellany Tracts. 1684. In The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Ed. Charles Sayle. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1927. 3.350-65.*
Carroll, Lewis. Curiosa Mathematica. 1888-93.
Chambers, William, and Robert Chambers, rev. eds. Chambers' Miscellany of Instructive and Entertaining Tracts. London: W. and R. Chambers, 1872.
Feijoo, Benito Jerónimo. Teatro Crítico Universal.
http://www.fgbueno.es/edi/feijoo1.htm
2007
Gaffarell, Jacques. Curiositez inouyes. 1650.
_____. Vnheard-of Curiosities. Trans. E. Chilmead. 1650.
Grew, N. Musaeum regalis societatis, or a Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham College, Whereunto Is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. London: Thomas Malthus, 1681.
Happelius. In relat. Curiosis.
Schenkius. Observationes medicae rarae. 1610.
Talentonius, Jo. Variarum & Reconditarum Rerum Thesaurus. (On pygmies, etc.).
Tradescant, John. Musaeum Tradescantinum: Or, a Collection of Rarities Preserved at South-London… London, 1656.
Vossius. Variarum Observationum Liber. 1685.
Worm, O. Musei Wormiani Historia. Leiden, 1655.
Miscellaneous
Anglade, Christiane, Lucie Helenbrand, Odette Korach and Charlotte Vandier. Dis, pourquoi? Prologue by Cécile Aubry. Illust. Philippe Daure, Jacques Poirier and Ismael Balanyá. Paris: Hachette, 1968.
_____. Dime por qué. Prologue by Cécile Aubry. Illust. Philippe Daure, Jacques Poirier and Ismael Balanyá. (Enciclopedia Básica Argos, 1). Barcelona: Argos, 1968. 8th ed. 1977.*
Bernabé Flores, Manuel. Curiosidades matemáticas. Madrid: Alianza.
Boorstin, Daniel J. Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected. New York: Random House, 1994.
_____. La nariz de Cleopatra. Barcelona: Crítica, 1996.
Campbell, Malcolm. "Morsels for the Mind." SciLogs 10 Aug. 2013.*
http://www.scilogs.com/six_incredible_things_before_breakfast/morsels-for-the-mind-982013/
2013
Carroll, Sean. Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species. Norton, 2006.
Eslava Galán, Juan. Los templarios y otros enigmas medievales.
_____. España insólita y misteriosa: Un viaje por la España de la brujería, las leyendas y los tesoros ocultos. Barcelona: Planeta, 2006.*
Fagerstrom, Derek, Lauren Smith, and the Show Me Team. Show Me How: Instructions for Life. San Francisco (CA): Weldon Owen, 2008.
_____. Mira cómo se hace: 500 cosas que debes saber. Instrucciones para la vida: desde lo cotidiano a lo más exótico. Barcelona: RBA- Integral, 2008.*
Friedman, Claude T. H., and Robert Faguet, eds. Extraordinary Disorders of Human Behavior. New York: Plenum Press, 1982.
Gamow, George. Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland: Or, Stories of C. G., and H. New York: Macmillan, 1940.
_____. El breviario del señor Tompkins: En el País de las Maravillas y la invención del átomo. Madrid: FCE, 1993.
García Landa, José Ángel. "Misceláneas." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 1 Feb. 2009.*
http://garciala.blogia.com/2009/020101-miscelaneas.php
2009
Gardner, Martin (b. 1914). "Mathematical games." Column in Scientific American.
_____. Aha! Gotcha. Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight. C. 1981.
_____. ¡Ajá! Paradojas que hacen pensar. (Biblioteca Desafíos Matemáticos). Barcelona: RBA, 2007.*
_____. The Night Is Large: Collected Essays 1938-1995. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997.
_____. Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments. W. H. Freeman, 1988.
_____. Viajes por el tiempo y otras perplejidades matemáticas. Trans. Luis Bou García. Barcelona: RBA, 2007.*
Hamilton, John Maxwell. Casanova was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About the Writing, Selling and Reading of Books. Baton Rouge: Lousiana State UP, 2000.*
Holland, Charlie, ed. Strange Feats and Clever Turns: Remarkable Speciality Acts in Variety, Vaudeville and Sideshows at the Turn of the 20th Century, as Seen by Their Contemporaries. London: Holland and Palmer, 1998.
Impey, O., and A. MacGregor, eds. The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Europe. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985.
Increíble pero cierto. Madrid: Susaeta, 2000.*
Jackson, Kevin. Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities. London: Picador, c. 2000.
Juel-Jensen, B. "Musaeum Clausum, or Bibliotheca Abscondita: Some Thoughts on Curiosity Cabinets and Imaginary Books." Journal of the History of Collections 4 (1992): 127-40.
Vita Meravigliosa. Children's encyclopedia. Milan: M. Confalonieri.
_____. The Living World of Science. (Trans. of Vita Meravigliosa).
_____. Tout connaître. (Trans. of Vita Meravigliosa).
_____. Lo sé todo: Enciclopedia documental en colores. 12 vols. Buenos Aires: Larousse, 1962. (Trans. of Vita Meravigliosa).
_____. Levende Verden. (Danish trans. of Vita Meravigliosa).
_____. Zoek het eens op. (Dutch trans. of Vita Meravigliosa).
_____. Tropica. (Trans. of Vita Meravigliosa).
McWhirter, N., and R. McWhirter. Guinness Book of World Records. New York: Sterling, 1975.
Oldridge, Darren. Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds. London: Routledge, 2004. (Book/eBook).
Preston, Claire. "In the Wilderness of Forms. Ideas and Things in Thomas Browne's Cabinets of Curiosity." The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print. Ed. Neil Rhodes and Jonathan Sawday. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. 170-83.*
Preston, Richard. Panic in Level Four: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science.
Seelig, L. "The Munich Künstkammer, 1565-1807." In The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Europe. Ed. O. Impey and A. MacGregor. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985.
Vidal, César. Enigmas históricos al descubierto: de Jesús a Bin Laden. Barcelona: Planeta, 2002.
_____. Nuevos enigmas históricos al descubierto: de Nostradamus a Saddam Hussein. Barcelona: Planeta.
Wiseman, Richard. Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things. Basic Books, 2007.
_____. Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives. Pan Books, 2008.
Blogs
Actual y curioso. Blog.
http://actualcurioso.blogspot.com/
2011
Amazing Stuff: Videos of amazing things. (Paul Redford, Michigan)
http://amazingstufftome.blogspot.com/
2007-04-14
Un barco más grande: Grandes (y pequeños) traspiés en la historia de la humanidad
http://barcomasgrande.blogspot.com/
2008
Boing Boing. Blog.
http://www.boingboing.net
2004-12-30
Una breve historia. Blog on curiosities.
http://unabrevehistoria.blogspot.com/
2008
Dark Roasted Blend. Blog (on curiosities)
http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/
2006-12-24
Deputydog
http://deputy-dog.com/
2007
Días del futuro pasado. Blog.
http://www.futuropasado.com/
2006-12-26
Essays & Effluvia. Curiosities blog.
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/
2008
El Hábitat del Unicornio. Blog on psychology. (Luis Muíño).
http://www.elhabitatdelunicornio.net/
2006-12-11
Harvestfields.ca
http://www.harvestfields.netfirms.com
2005-06-26
Juegos de ingenio. Blog
http://juegosdeingenio.org/
2005-06-19
Near Near Future
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
2004-12-29
No puedo creer que lo hayan inventado
http://www.nopuedocreer.com/quelohayaninventado/
2007-04-14
Oddee. Blog on oddities.
http://www.oddee.com/
2008
So Bad So Good: The Best and Worst of the Web.*
http://sobadsogood.com/
2013
The Straight Dope. (Cecil Adams).
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/031226.html
2006-11-23
Suspension of Disbelief. Blog on curiosities.
http://xenmate.blogspot.com/
2009
Internet resources
Arches UK
http://www.archesuk.com/
2008
BuzzFeed
http://www.buzzfeed.com/
2014
Ilusiones ópticas
http://www.portalmix.com/efectos/
2008
Journals
Quo no. 155 (August 2008).*
Series
(Biblioteca Desafíos Matemáticos). Barcelona: RBA, 2007.*
(El Mundo es Matemático). Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2010.*
See also Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes; Mysteries; Trivia.