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Published on: 2010-01-04
Released on: 2010-01-04
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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. Social Science History: Society and Science History TimeLine Society and Science: Home Page Dictionary People Books Web links: Social Science History: Time line for the history of society science and social science Entertainment News Celebrity and Pop Culture - ABC News Get the latest entertainment news celebrity interviews and pop culture pulse on movies TV and music and more at ABCNews.com. Moby Dick - Wikipedia Moby Dick fu pubblicato nel 1851 durante il periodo che stato chiamato il Rinascimento americano il quale vide la pubblicazione di opere letterarie come La ... Peliculotas Qu podemos decir?. En Peliculotas nos dedicamos a subir peliculas completas en espaol latino sobre todos los gneros. Disfruta y comparte. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? - Answers Solutions ... Need Facebook Who Wants To Be A Millionaire answers solutions and cheats? Consult our quick reference chart. Then help us grow more Millionaire cheats! Day Poems : Walt Whitman: Song of Myself To link to this poem put the URL below into your page: a href="daypoems.net/poems/1900.html"Song of Myself by Walt Whitman/a Plain for Printing The Latest On AXS The AXS Cookie Policy. This website like most others uses cookies in order to give you a great online experience. By continuing to use our website you accept to our ... ANTARCTICA EXPERIENCED THROUGH MUSIC - Capsule Comments on ... ANTARCTICA EXPERIENCED THROUGH MUSIC. Capsule Comments on CDs about Antarctica Valmar Kurol (January 2016) NOTE: This valuable resource is kindly provided by ... US History/Print version - Wikibooks open books for an ... Brief overview of European history (before 1492) The peoples of Europe have had a tremendous effect on the development of the United States throughout the course of U ... William Cronon - The Trouble With Wilderness; or Getting ... The official website of William Cronon. ... The Trouble with Wilderness; or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature
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