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

ISBN-13:	9780679764892
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/26/1996
Edition description:	First Vintage Books Edition
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	389,589
Product dimensions:	5.17(w) x 7.91(h) x 0.53(d)

Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionPronged 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.