Article ID: CBB001320419

Cetology: How Science Inspired Moby-Dick (2013)

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Seventeen of the book's 135 chapters focus on whale anatomy or behaviour. Titles include 'The Sperm Whale's Head --- Contrasted View' and 'The Right Whale's Head --- Contrasted View'; such sections lay out the whales' physical structure with a wry mixture of known facts and arch analogy. (In a witty 2011 essay, marine biologist Harold Morowitz speculates on Melville as a cetacean gastroenterologist or proctologist.) Melville's must also be the first, and perhaps last, work of literature to feature a chapter on zooplankton.

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Authors & Contributors
Barthelemess, Klaus
Felix Lüttger
Mead, J. G.
Waller, G. N. H.
Woodman, Neal
Test, Edward McLean
Concepts
Natural history
Zoology
Science and literature
Whales
Animal behavior
Botany
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
Renaissance
16th century
Early modern
Places
Great Britain
United States
Europe
Pacific Ocean
Sweden
Northwest Passage
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