Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nat, (Paperback)
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Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nat, (Paperback)
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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 au...
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A history of the court case where the crucial question was: Is a whale a fish or a mammal? The author gives a great deal of detail, spinning out the history of taxonomy and whaling to set a background for a case that in the end was a dispute between two powerful business groups, both determined t...
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