Postcards from the Brain Museum: The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds

Postcards from the Brain Museum

The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds

2004 • 356 pages

Ratings1

Average rating4

15

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. 30,000 first printing.

Tags

Genre


Become a Librarian

Reviews

Popular Reviews

Reviews with the most likes.

There are no reviews for this book. Add yours and it'll show up right here!


Top Lists

See all (1)

List

117 books

Borrowed

Himself
Only the Flower Knows
Only the Flower Knows 3
Only the Flower Knows 2
The Da Vinci Code
New Moon
A People's History of the Vampire Uprising