Postcards From the Brain Museum The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds by Brian Burrell 2005 Broadway Books
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This is a near fine (almost like new) hardcover with dust jacket. 2005 Broadway Books. This copy is still crisp and clean inside and out. The inside pages are crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight. Brown hardcover boards under jacket are also near fine with barely a hint of shelf wear. The accompanying dust jacket is clean and shiny with only a hint of shelf wear. Media octavo book size or 6.5" x 9.5" with 356 pages including index.
Postcards from the Brain Museum by Brian Burrell is subtitled The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds. What makes one man a genius and another a criminal? Is there a physical explanation for this? In this book, the author relates the story of the first scientific attempts of locate the source go genius and depravity in the anatomy of the brain. He describes how the brains of famous men were first collected - by both fair and foul means - and how exhaustive studies tried to analyze them. Byron, Whitman, Lenin, Einstein and more are just a few examples of the studies conducted. Great scientific debates ensued. The Fowler brothers brought phrenology to the U.S. and made a convert of Walt Whitman who donated his brain to science and later disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The misconceived phrenological project was finally abandoned with new technologies of brain study emerging. The book is a forgotten episode in science and a colorful tale of eccentrics.
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