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Book Annals   Magazine of Natural History

Download or read book Annals Magazine of Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Magazine of Natural History

Download or read book Magazine of Natural History written by John Claudius Loudon and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society of London

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The annals and magazine of natural history  zoology  botany and geology

Download or read book The annals and magazine of natural history zoology botany and geology written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Works on Natural History

Download or read book Catalogue of Works on Natural History written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trying Leviathan

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  • Author : D. Graham Burnett
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2010-01-04
  • ISBN : 1400833981
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book Trying Leviathan written by D. Graham Burnett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in the courts of New York City. In Trying Leviathan, D. Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular--and biblically sanctioned--view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundane: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature--and how we know it--was at stake. Burnett vividly recreates the trial, during which a parade of experts--pea-coated whalemen, pompous philosophers, Jacobin lawyers--took the witness stand, brandishing books, drawings, and anatomical reports, and telling tall tales from whaling voyages. Falling in the middle of the century between Linnaeus and Darwin, the trial dramatized a revolutionary period that saw radical transformations in the understanding of the natural world. Out went comfortable biblical categories, and in came new sorting methods based on the minutiae of interior anatomy--and louche details about the sexual behaviors of God's creatures. When leviathan breached in New York in 1818, this strange beast churned both the natural and social orders--and not everyone would survive.

Book History of the Berwickshire Naturalists  Club

Download or read book History of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club written by Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland). and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains it's Proceedings.

Book Natural History of New York      Zoology  by J E Dekay  6 v  in 4 and atlas

Download or read book Natural History of New York Zoology by J E Dekay 6 v in 4 and atlas written by New York (State). Natural History Survey and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

Download or read book Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia written by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794.

Book HENRY G  BOHN S CATALOGUE OF BOOKS

Download or read book HENRY G BOHN S CATALOGUE OF BOOKS written by HENRY G. BOHNS and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Natural History and Scientific Book Circular

Download or read book The Natural History and Scientific Book Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: