Description
Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Finalist for 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.
Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/26/1996
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.32w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780679764892
ISBN10: 0679764895
BISAC Categories:
- Science | History
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Reference | General
Finalist for 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.
Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/26/1996
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.32w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780679764892
ISBN10: 0679764895
BISAC Categories:
- Science | History
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Reference | General
About the Author
Lawrence Weschler was for over twenty years (1981-2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award. his nonfiction book Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award.