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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of Figures
ONE: Introduction
The Peace Offering That Stank
Maurice v. Judd and the History of Science
From Dock to Docket
TWO: Common Sense
Manhattan and Its Whales
THREE: The Philosophical Whale
Samuel Latham Mitchill and Natural History in New York City
“No More a Fish than a Man”
Taxonomy at the Bar
FOUR: Naturalists in the Crow’s Nest
What the Whalemen Knew
FIVE: Men of Affairs
The Whale in the Swamp
SIX: The Jury Steps Out
The Knickerbockers Slay a Yankee Whale
Who Decides Who Decides?
Picking Up the Pisces
SEVEN: Conclusion
New Science, New York, New Nation
Epilogue: Whales and Fish, Philosophers and Historians, Science and Society
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
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