[PDF.81om] The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination

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

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 | #2559285 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  1997-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.47 x.95 x6.37l,1.18 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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"Cats is 'dogs,' and rabbits is 'dogs,' and so's parrots; but this `ere 'tortis' is a insect," a porter explains to an astonished traveler in a nineteenth-century Punch cartoon. Railways were not the only British institution to schematize the world. This enormously entertaining 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 ...

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