A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
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.
Gallardo, B. J. Ensayo de una Biblioteca Española de Libros Raros y Curiosos. 4 vols. Madrid, 1863-89.
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.*
Baldi, Ryan. "Rory Curtis: Amateur Footballer Who Woke from a Coma Speaking Fluent French." BBC Sport 1 June 2020.*
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52778714
2020
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.
Concostrina, Nieves. Polvo eres: Peripecias y extravagancias de algunos cadáveres inquietos. Madrid: La Esfera de los libros. 2008. 2nd ed. 2011.
Darling, David. "Jonathan Swift and the Moons of Mars." David Darling.*
https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/Swift.html
2020
Díaz, David. "Aventuras en la fascinante Muralla China de Huesca (sí, existe)." Traveler 28 May 2019.*
https://www.traveler.es/naturaleza/articulos/finestras-muralla-china-huesca/15333
2020
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
_____."Curiosos resultados electorales." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 10 May 2019.*
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2019/05/curiosos-resultados-electorales.html
2019
_____. "Curiosos resultados electorales." Ibercampus (Vanity Fea) 10 May 2019.*
https://www.ibercampus.es/curiosos-resultados-electorales-38394.htm
2019
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.*
Granados, Alberto. La historia más curiosa. Madrid: Aguilar, 2010
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.
Niremberg, Juan Eusebio. Curiosa filosofía y tesoro de maravillas de la naturaleza. (Spanish ed.).
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.
Weber, Louis, et al. The Book of Useless Information. Morton Grove (IL): Publications International, 2011.*
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
Abismo: Conexión con el Misterio. Program at Aragón Radio.*
https://www.cartv.es/aragonradiopodcast/podcast/abismo
2025
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
Atlas Obscura.*
2023
Un barco más grande: Grandes (y pequeños) traspiés en la historia de la humanidad
http://barcomasgrande.blogspot.com/
2008
Boing Boing. Blog.
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
2007
Días del futuro pasado. Blog.
2006-12-26
Essays & Effluvia. Curiosities blog.
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/
2008
Far Outliers. Blog on migrants and cultural curiosities.*
https://faroutliers.blogspot.com/
2022
Futility Closet.*
https://www.futilitycloset.com/
2023
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
2005-06-19
Morena, Raquel de la. YouTube (Raquel de la Morena).*
https://www.youtube.com/@raqueldelamorenaoficial
2024
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
Noticias insólitas.*
2019
Oddee. Blog on oddities.
2008
Strambotic. Blog at Público.*
http://blogs.publico.es/strambotic/
2017
So Bad So Good: The Best and Worst of the Web.*
2013
The Straight Dope. (Cecil Adams).
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/031226.html
2006-11-23
Suspension of Disbelief. Blog on curiosities.
2009
Un Viajero al Pasado (Facebook).* (Curiosities).
https://www.facebook.com/unviajeroalpasado
2023
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
The Book of Useless Information. Morton Grove (IL): Publications International, 2011.* (By Louis Weber et al.).
Internet resources
All That's Interesting.*
https://allthatsinteresting.com/
2020
Arches UK
2008
BuzzFeed
2014
Ilusiones ópticas
http://www.portalmix.com/efectos/
2008
Journals
All That's Interesting.*
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/
2014
Curious Mind Magazine.*
https://curiousmindmagazine.com/
2022
Don Porqué.*
2026
Quo no. 155 (August 2008).*
Series
(Biblioteca Desafíos Matemáticos). Barcelona: RBA, 2007.*
(El Mundo es Matemático). Barcelona: RBA Coleccionables, 2010.*
Video
Dark Skies. "Project 1794 - The US Military's VZ-9 Avrocar Flying Saucer." Video. YouTube (Dark Skies) 27 May 2020.* (Avro Aircraft Ltd.).
2023
DroneScapes. "Aviones alemanes de última generación de la Segunda Guerra Mundial – Serie completa – Me 323 Gigant." Video. YouTube (DroneScapes) 18 Feb. 2023.*
2023
García, Julio, et al. "La Voz de España Ed. 621." Video. Canal5TV 29 June 2023.* ("Extraocular vision", New Age bullshit).
https://canal5radio.tv/video/la-voz-de-espana-ed621/
2023
RTVE. "SETENTA Y RARO | Viaje al centro de la tele." YouTube (RTVE) 17 Oct. 2020.*
2020
Susurros del Tiempo. "Los 9 Misterios de la HISTORIA Que Nadie Puede Explicar." Video. YouTube (Susurros del Tiempo) 17 July 2025.*
2025
See also Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes; Mysteries; Trivia.
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