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Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder

Lawrence Weschler

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#1021 of 3,809 books · #33 in General

Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1996) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1995).

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and 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
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780307833983
Topics
Museums and curiosity cabinetsArt and science historyHoaxes and perception

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