The data from
Spermaceti Cove were then analyzed as a group, and those from Earle were separated by the presence or absence of a fence and then analyzed (Appendix 1).
Enderby, one of the most prominent owners of whaling vessels, about whether a
spermaceti whale had ever been captured by his crew, the answer was: "Mr.
'Our modelling also indicates that the momentum of the
spermaceti organ of a large mobile sperm whale could seriously injure a stationary opponent of similar size, despite the necessity for damping to protect the attacking whale.'
According to Vickers's estimates,
spermaceti oil earned twice as much as right whale oil, and the "head matter was worth three times as much."
(9.) The right whale (Baleaenidae) was taken and its blubber is rendered for oil in the same way as that of the fat of the
spermaceti, but unlike the latter, the right whale has no "case" in its head filled with
spermaceti and oil.
He calls the Sussex "the devil's ship" and tells Una that each night, as a sort of penance, he soaks his hands in
spermaceti. "I wring my hands in it," he adds.
not turned-to-stone fossils but the original organic material in tusks of hairy mammoth, walrus, and narwal plus
spermaceti and killer whale teeth are being gleaned by native peoples who live on the shores and shallows and inland deposits of the far north.
Flour and
spermaceti ointment were also used to dress frostbite; on at least one occasion the physician indicated that rubbing with snow was effective (fol.
Whale oil figured in the production of cleansing agents and other chemical products, and the waxy substance called
spermaceti, taken from the head of the sperm whale, made excellent candles.
A subtheme of Melville's cetology is the deckhand with his arms deep in
spermaceti teasing the professors sitting in libraries of dubious knowledge or in laboratories too small to accommodate even the tenth part of a whale's head.
Along the way, Brilliant even delves into the development of a candle derived from the head of the sperm whale called "
Spermaceti" that was used in the first scientific light experiments and would become the standard for measuring luminous intensity--one candlepower.