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The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination Paperback - 1998
by Harriet Ritvo
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This book captures the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing every new specimen, plant or animal, that British explorers and soldiers and sailors brought home. As she depicts a whole complex of competing groups deploying rival schemes and nomenclatures, Harriet Ritvo shows us a society drawing and redrawing its own boundaries and ultimately identifying itself. A thoroughly absorbing account of taxonomy - as zoological classification and as anthropological study - The Platypus and the Mermaid offers a new perspective on the constantly shifting, ever suggestive interactions of scientific lore, cultural ideas, and the popular imagination.
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- Title The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination
- Author Harriet Ritvo
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Third Printing
- Pages 308
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
- Date 1998-10-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780674673588 / 0674673581
- Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 9.22 x 6.13 x 0.82 in (23.42 x 15.57 x 2.08 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97000405
- Dewey Decimal Code 590.12
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- New York Times, 10/18/1998, Page 36
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