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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

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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  • ISBN-13: 9780691129501
  • ISBN: 0691129509
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press

AUTHOR

Burnett, D. Graham

SUMMARY

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.Burnett, D. Graham is the author of 'Trying Leviathan The Nineteenth-century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature', published 2007 under ISBN 9780691129501 and ISBN 0691129509.

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