[PDF.25ry] 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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 | #848691 in Books |  D Graham Burnett |  2010 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.67 x5.98l,.90 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

 | 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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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Required for Those Interested in the History of Science|By RDD|In "Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature", D. Graham Burnett examines James Maurice v. Samuel Judd (1818), a three-day trial in which Judd, an oil merchant, argued that Maurice, the inspector, did not have the authority to collect

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...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature   |  D. Graham Burnett.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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