Postcards from the brain museum : the improbable search for meaning in the matter of famous minds / Brian Burrell.

  • Burrell, Brian, 1955-
Date:
2004
  • Books

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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

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-342) and index.

Contents

The most complex object in the universe -- Descartes -- Gall -- Byron -- Gauss -- Broca -- Lombroso -- Séguin -- Guiteau -- Wilder -- Whitman -- Spitzka -- Lenin -- Einstein -- The new phrenologists.

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ISBN

  • 0385501285
  • 9780385501286