Trying Leviathan
Zoology, united states
Prozess
Natur
United States of America
Whaling
Animal rights
New York (State)
Sociala aspekter
Trials
Whales
Zoology
Classification
Trials, litigation
Cases
Taxation
Historia
Law and legislation
Social aspects
History
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 stat…
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