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

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0679764895 ISBN13: 9780679764892 Release Date: November 1996 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Length: 192 Pages Weight: 0.50 lbs. Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0" Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionFinalist 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.