Andrew Fraknoi and Vera Rubin are seen here at a meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1992. Fraknoi was the Executive Director of the Society and Rubin was on its Board of Directors.
Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale are by far the most noteworthy. They are the only whales regularly hunted by man. To the Nantucketer, they present the two extremes of all the known varieties of the whale. As the external difference between them is mainly observable in their heads; and as a head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequod's side.