Trying Leviathan

The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put The Whale On Trial And Challenged The Order Of Nature

by D. Graham Burnett
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Publisher: Princeton University Press, January of 2010 ‧
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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.

Trying Leviathan

The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put The Whale On Trial And Challenged The Order Of Nature

by D. Graham Burnett

Property Description
ISBN: 9780691146157
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: January of 2010
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 288
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > History and Scientific Methodology
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780691146157