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

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

Harriet Ritvo

288 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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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 19th-century Punch cartoon. Railways were not the only British institution to schematize the world. This ...

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