Category: 建築
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叉狀觸角的螞蟻、長角的人類、果核上雕刻的風景——大衛·威爾森「侏羅紀科技博物館」中的部分展品其實是騙局。但哪些才是真的？勞倫斯·韋施勒帶領讀者走進一座知識的鏡像迷宮，重訪16世紀作為博物館雛形的「珍奇櫃」，並促使讀者反思藝術與科學兩者想像力的根源。
I picked this up for the fruit-pit carvings chapter alone, but the pronged ant details pulled me in even deeper. It’s the kind of book you end up reading aloud to whoever’s nearby, which is exactly what I did.
I’ve never read anything quite like this—the section on those pronged ants alone is worth the price. It’s dense in the best way, and the historical details feel utterly strange and real.
The way it weaves the story of those pronged ants and horned humans into a bigger meditation on curiosity is unlike any architecture book I've read. The prose is so vivid I felt like I was walking through the cabinets myself.
