The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination - Harriet Ritvo - Books - Harvard University Press - 9780674673588 - October 15, 1998
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Capturing the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing, Ritvo depicts a complex of competing groups—naturalists and zoologists, farmers and showmen, butchers and artists—deploying rival schemes to impose order on nature.

298 pages, 10 halftones, 39 line illustrations

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Released October 15, 1998
ISBN13 9780674673588
Publishers Harvard University Press
Pages 298
Dimensions 233 × 156 × 24 mm   ·   480 g
Language English  

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