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Curiosity

Desire to learn, explore, or investigate

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Curiosity

5 images from works
  • Understanding the workings of the brain
  • Two flowers and a heart representing love and life with the words "Liebes Leben"; advertising an exhibition about AIDS in Leipzig. Colour lithograph by Studio Andreas Heller for the Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung, 1995.
  • Two flowers and a heart representing love and life with the words "Liebes Leben"; advertising a touring exhibition about AIDS. Colour lithograph by Studio Andreas Heller for the Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung, 1995.
  • A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.
  • A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.

Works from the collections

10 works

    • Books

    Curiosity : how science became interested in everything / Philip Ball.

    | Philip Ball | Date: 2012
    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Understanding the workings of the brain

    | Prof Giorgio Gabella
    • Pictures

    A peeping-tom spying on a fashionable lady receiving an enema. Reproduction of a line engraving after P. Maleuvre after P.A. Baudouin.

    | Pierre-Antoine Baudouin | Reference: 15865i
    • Books

    Restless mind : curiositas & the scope of inquiry in St. Augustine's psychology / by Joseph Torchia, O.P.

    | Torchia, N. Joseph (Natale Joseph), 1953- | Date: [2013]
    • E-books
    • Online

    What's that to thee? And Mind your own business . A sermon preach'd in London, June the 20th, 1708. Concerning an overcurious and inquisitive intermeddling with the concerns of others: And shewing what is every Man's proper Work and Business.

    | Date: 1708
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