Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Pronged ants, horned people, a landscape carved on a fruit pit– a few of the display screens in David Wilson’s Museum of Jurassic Innovation are scams. Which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16 th-century “wonder cabinets” that were the first museums and compels readers to analyze the creative origins of both art and science.
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