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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
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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.

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D. Graham Burnett is associate professor of history at Princeton University and an editor at "Cabinet" magazine. His books include "Masters of All They Surveyed" and "A Trial by Jury".
Release date NZ
January 24th, 2010
Pages
288
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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35 b&w illus.
Dimensions
152x229x18
ISBN-13
9780691146157
Product ID
4416502

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