Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature - D. Graham Burnett - Libros - Princeton University Press - 9780691146157 - 24 de enero de 2010
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Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature

D. Graham Burnett

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Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature

In "Moby-Dick", Ishmael declares, 'Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me'. This book recovers the story of Maurice versus Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the biblically sanctioned-view that the whale was a fish.


304 pages, 16 color plates. 19 halftones.

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Publicado 24 de enero de 2010
ISBN13 9780691146157
Editores Princeton University Press
Páginas 288
Dimensiones 145 × 228 × 18 mm   ·   414 g
Lengua English  

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