Crackpots and Eggheads: Eccentricity in Natural History

Museum of the History of Science by Oxford University

Jul 28, 201154:02Education

In the first in a series of 'Eccentricity' lectures, Dr Brian Regal talks about the search for 'monsters', in particular the hunt for Sasquatch or 'Bigfoot', and the "crackpot" natural historians who were obsessed with t...

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The third in a series of public lectures linked to the Museum's 'Eccentricity' exhibition.