Andrew Fraknoi, Sidney Wolff, and David Morrison, authors of the “Voyages through the Universe” textbook series and, more recently, the new, free, open-source textbook “Astronomy,” published by the non-profit OpenStax project at Rice University (with support from the Gates Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and others)
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.