Man of Misconceptions : The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change (9781101597033) (30 page)

“a look of dignity” . . . “gently down the spine”
: MacKay,
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
, vol. 1, p. 279.

“Without the stunning progress”
: Verschuur,
Hidden Attraction
, p. vi.

“more energy-like”
: In Richard Panek, “Out There,”
The New York Times Magazine
, March 11, 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/magazine/11dark.t.html.

“Proof will require a lot more information”
: John Glassie, “A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson,” Salon.com, January 14, 2002, http://www.salon.com/2002/01/14/eowilson_2/.

“To believe in evolution”
: James E. Strick,
Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), p. 2.

Duchamp and de Chirico
: See Lugli, “Inquiry as Collection,” p. 124.

“Kircher and others imagine”
: Edgar Allan Poe, “A Descent into the Maelström,”
Graham's Magazine
, no. 18 (May 1841), p. 237, online at the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore website, www.eapoe.org. Kircher's influence on Poe and others is mentioned in Findlen, “The Last Man Who Knew Everything . . . Or Did He?,” p. 42.

“learned egoist”
: Jules Verne,
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
, trans. William Butcher (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 4.

“a sage?”
: Umberto Eco,
The Island of the Day Before
, trans. William Weaver (New York: Penguin, 1996), pp. 271–272.

“gladdened the World to the extreme”
: Kircher,
Itinerarium Exstaticum,
pp. 1–2.

“remarkable” for its “very lofty rampart”
: Thomas Gwyn Elger,
The Moon: A Full Description and Map of Its Principal Physical Features
(London: George Philip & Son, 1895).

“somewhat deformed”
: John Wilkinson,
The Moon in Close-up: A Next Generation Astronomer's Guide
(Berlin: Springer, 2010), p. 246.

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