num_pages: 171
description: 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.
language: English
title: Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
titlecomplete: Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
genres: Essays, Art, Historical, Science, Natural History, Nature, Museums, Nonfiction, History, Humor
ratings_count: 2655
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Vintage