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Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders (Vintage, 1996) This Pulitzer-Prize winning "intellectual hall of mirrors" is a tour of the obscurely bizarre Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles — a modern day "wonder cabinet" — that gives way to a meditation on the role of imagination and authority. Oliver Sacks, author of An Anthropologist on Mars: "In this marvelous study of a bizarre museum and its self-mocking, polymath creator, [Weschler] finds an epiphany of that vast movement of discovery and wonder which created the first museums...of the sixteenth century, and that heady state of mind — compounded of collection mania, mad taxonomy, imaginative exuberance, and naif wonder — which formed the prelude to modern science. I found it enthralling." MORE: Review by John Lavey Amazon |
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