Platypus and the mermaid, the: and other figments of the classifying imagination
Auteur :
Ritvo, Harriet
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674673588
Date de publication :
15 oct. 1998
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
472 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.