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The Platypus and the Mermaid : And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination
The Platypus and the Mermaid And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination
Author: Harriet Ritvo
This thoroughly absorbing book on taxonomy captures the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing. As she depicts a complex of competing groups--naturalists and zoologists, farmers and showmen, butchers and artists--deploying rival schemes to impose order on nature, Harriet Ritvo offers a new perspective on the constantly shif...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674673571
ISBN-10: 0674673573
Publication Date: 10/1/1997
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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