"The whalers' natural history and natural historians' whales"
Abstract:The paper uses the iconoclasm of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dickas a point of departure to examine four types of images that deal with the problem of representing whales pictorially. I hope to show how the practical knowledge of whalers came...
First meeting of the fall term for the Modern Sciences Working Group. A panel discussion featuring students and faculty discussing their recent research experiences.
