Hunting and into popular culture, all of which she covers in fiveĬhapters. Natural history, zoology, and comparative anatomy through breeding and The Notes at the end of the book is breathtaking), Ritvo has read on Intimation in the subtitle, And Other Figments of the ClassifyingĬasting her research net widely (the range of material cited in Objects in the tide, The Platypus and the Mermaid and consider the Nineteenth century Britain, is such a work: note the real and imaginary Judgement on the authenticity of the "data." Ritvo'sīook, on the classification of plants and animals in eighteenth and
"facts" or, at least, that the historian makes no explicit And further imagine that these are treated equally as valid Of the Mars Sojourner and the Hubble Space Telescope are included in herīook. Sighting of U.F.O.s and the Loch Ness Monster as well as the discoveries Or Nature) but also tabloids (like the National Inquirer) - so that Reads not only issues of science journals (such as Scientific American Late-twentieth century scientific culture. Imagine some historian a hundred years from now researching a book on The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying APA style: The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination.The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination." Retrieved from
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