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Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale

Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature Hardcover - 2007

by D. Graham Burnett

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Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. 8vo. 288 pp. 16 color plates. 19 halftones. Inscribed by the author on the title page. 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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