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Description Of Missourium, Or Missouri Leviathan: Together With Its Supposed Habits And Indian Traditions Concerning The Location From Whence It Was E

Description Of Missourium, Or Missouri Leviathan: Together With Its Supposed Habits And Indian Traditions Concerning The Location From Whence It Was E

Koch, Albert

Paperback

Environmental StudiesGeneral World HistoryPaleontology

ISBN10: 9354506232
ISBN13: 9789354506239
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 22
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.05 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From the Missouri River mud, a giant rises. Monster bones, inked claims, doubts. Albert Koch's Description of Missourium, or Missouri Leviathan is a riveting natural history pamphlet from 19th century America, written at the moment when fossils, faith, and public spectacle collided. Part eyewitness report of a Missouri River excavation, part salesman's defence, it invites you into the missourium fossil legend and the early American paleontology that helped shape modern curiosity. This antiquarian scientific treatise also reads as a historical zoology monograph: Koch weighs anatomy and behaviour, then turns to bold biblical leviathan analysis, setting the creature beside Job's famous sea-beast. Koch writes for the curious lay public as much as for the learned, mixing measurements, conjecture, and showman's rhetoric. Read today, the pamphlet reveals how evidence was marshalled, disputed, and staged in museums and lecture rooms along the frontier of America. His whale crocodile comparisons, and his wider comparisons of whale, crocodile and Missourium, offer a fascinating window onto how Victorian-era readers tried to reconcile scripture with emerging palaeontology and comparative biology. For history of science reading, it captures the texture of argument before disciplines hardened: confident, speculative, and wonderfully detailed. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Whether you come for a paleontology reference reprint or for the drama of debate, this facsimile reprint edition belongs on the shelf of collectors, researchers, and curious readers alike.

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