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

Categorie	Algemeen Antiek & Curiosa
Boeknummer	#382360-UD11
Titel	Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
Auteur	Weschler, Lawrence
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York : Vintage Books
Jaar van uitgave	1996
ISBN10	0679764895
ISBN13	9780679764892
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, some illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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.
Pagina's	168
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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