D. Graham Burnett

Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature

Thursday, March 12, 6:30 p.m.,
Members’ Room
$10 in advance/
$15 at the door

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... ..the trial dramatized a revolutionary period that saw radical transfor- mations in the understanding of the natural world.

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