Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 6:30 PM In Trying Leviathan, a 2007 New York City Book Award winner, D. Graham Burnett recovers the striking 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. More Information: http://www.nysoclib.org/notes/2009/trying_leviathan.html
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