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.

Media	Böcker Pocketbok (Bok med mjukt omslag och limmad rygg)
Releasedatum	24 januari 2010
ISBN13	9780691146157
Utgivare	Princeton University Press
Antal sidor	288
Mått	145 × 228 × 18 mm · 414 g
Språk	Engelska

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