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Nick Wilding, Georgia State University, "Galileo Machinator" 
Dear colleagues,
I wanted to try something new: I have just, over the last few weeks, and mainly in the last few days, written what I hope to be the start of my new book, commissioned several years ago by Reaktion Press and subsequently derailed by the pandemic. I've included the initial proposal with (p.2) a Postscript sketching out what I'm now trying to do. The text is only lightly footnoted, probably contains mistakes, typos, etc, so please don't bother proofreading, just read. What I would really value is a discussion about the general approach - I'm trying to use forgeries to write a biography, but don't know yet whether this works.
Thank you for your time and thought.

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phrenology

Detail from 19th century chart, one of many in Princeton's collection of phrenological books and ephemera.