Title Trying Leviathan : the nineteenth-century New York court case that put the whale on trial and challenged the order of nature / D. Graham Burnett

Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (299 pages) Contents Common sense -- The philosophical whale -- Naturalists in the crow's nest -- Men of affairs -- The jury steps out Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 30, 2013) Isabelle Hermalyn Book Award, 2007 New York City Book Award, 2007 Subject Maurice, James, active 1818 -- Trials, litigation, etc Judd, Samuel, 1780-1847 -- Trials, litigation, etc SUBJECT Sampson, William, 1764-1836. Is a whale a fish? Judd, Samuel, active 1818 -- Trials, litigation, etc Maurice, James, active 1818 -- Trials, litigation, etc Judd, Samuel, 1780-1847 fast Maurice, James, active 1818 fast Wal 1949- gnd Subject Whales -- Classification Animal rights -- New York (State) -- New York Speciesism. LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) Animal rights Speciesism Whales Fischöl Natur Ordnung Biologie Prozess Steuer Walfang Wala Volk Systematik Walvissen. Taxonomie. Controversen. Processen (rechtspraak) Valar -- historia. Valfångst -- historia. Zoologi -- sociala aspekter -- historia. Rättegångar -- historia. New York (State) -- New York New York Staat Förenta staterna -- New York. Genre/Form Trial and arbitral proceedings Classification Trials, litigation, etc. Trial and arbitral proceedings. Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage. Form Electronic book LC no. 2007008378 ISBN 9781400833986 1400833981 9780691129501 0691129509

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