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

308 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

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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 wo...

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