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D. Graham Burnett

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1) The sounding of the whale: science & cetaceans in the twentieth century

Author

Burnett, D. Graham

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

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Explores how humans' view of whales changed from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, looking at how the sea mammals were once viewed as monsters but evolved into something much gentler and more beautiful.

2) Trying Leviathan: the nineteenth-century New York court case that put the whale on trial and challenged the order of nature

Author

Burnett, D. Graham

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Pub. Date

[2007]

Language

English

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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...

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D. Graham Burnett

1) The sounding of the whale: science & cetaceans in the twentieth century

2) Trying Leviathan: the nineteenth-century New York court case that put the whale on trial and challenged the order of nature