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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology

Lawrence Weschler

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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.

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Publisher
Pantheon
Year
2013
ISBN-13
9780307833983
Genre
Nonfiction
Topics
Museums and curiosity cabinetsArt and science historyHoaxes and perception

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