In Moby-Dick chapter 32, Herman Melville had fun with the already outdated term cetology which ofc he did not invent. In the Encyclopædia Britannica 4th edition (Volume 5 page 328) Melville might have found a hint for his humorous book-based system of classification in the way… pic.twitter.com/ND10psF0K4
— Scott Norsworthy 🇺🇸 (@Melvilliana) January 4, 2025
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