The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination

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1998
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An account of taxonomy, as zoological classification and as anthropological study. The text explores interactions of scientific lore, cultural ideas and the popular imagination, and aims to capture the Victorian fervor for classifying and categorizing each new specimen of plant or animal.

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An account of taxonomy, as zoological classification and as anthropological study. The text explores interactions of scientific lore, cultural ideas and the popular imagination, and aims to capture the Victorian fervor for classifying and categorizing each new specimen of plant or animal.

$49.10

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 298
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 04 Dec 1998
ISBN 10: 0674673581
ISBN 13: 9780674673588