Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

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.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    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...

  • Foyles

    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 ..."

  • 0691146152
  • 9780691146157
  • D. Graham Burnett
  • 24 January 2010
  • Princeton University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
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