Author: Thomas BealePublisher:
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Category : Sperm whale
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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A Few Observations on the Natural History of the Sperm Whale
Author: Thomas BealePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sperm whale
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
A Few Observations on the Natural History of the Sperm Whale: with an account of the rise and progress of the fishery, etc
Author: Thomas BEALE (Surgeon.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
A few observations on the natural history of the sperm whale, with an account of the rise and progress of the fishery, and of the modes of pursuing, killing, and cutting in that animal, with a list of its favorite places of resort
Author: Thomas Beale (d.1849)Publisher:
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Category : Sperm Whale
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Few Observations on the Natural History of the Sperm Whale, with an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Fishery ...
Author: Thomas BealeA Few Observations on the Natural History of the Sperm Whale, with an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Fishery, and of the Modes of Pursuing, Killing, and "cutting In" that Animal, with a List of Its Favorite Places of Resort. By Thomas Beale, Surgeon, Demonstrator of Anatomy to the Eclectic Society of London; Assistant Surgeon to St. John's British Hospital; and Medical Assistant to the Royal Humane Society
Author: A Few Observations on the Natural History of the Sperm Whale
Author: Thomas Beale (surgeon)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sperm whale
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
A Few Observations on the Natural History of the Few Sperm Whale
Author: Thomas BealeTrying Leviathan
Author: D. Graham BurnettPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400833981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
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.
Magazine of Natural History
Author: John Claudius LoudonPublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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