Postcards from the brain museum : the improbable search for meaning in the matter of famous minds / Brian Burrell.
- Burrell, Brian, 1955-
- Date:
- 2004
- Books
About this work
Description
Traces the near-obsessive nineteenth-century research of top scientific minds to locate possible anatomical signs of genius, criminal behavior, and insanity, discussing the posthumous brain examinations of such figures as Albert Einstein, Walt Whitman, and Vladimir Lenin.
Publication/Creation
New York : Broadway Books, 2004.
Physical description
356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Contents
The most complex object in the universe -- Descartes -- Gall -- Byron -- Gauss -- Broca -- Lombroso -- Séguin -- Guiteau -- Wilder -- Whitman -- Spitzka -- Lenin -- Einstein -- The new phrenologists.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-342) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesM25434
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ISBN
- 0385501285
- 9780385501286