Fathoming the Ocean - The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea

Klappentext Tells the story of how the ocean became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession! an engineering challenge and a political attraction. Zusammenfassung By the middle of the 19th century, as scientists explored the frontiers of polar regions and the atmosphere, the ocean remained silent and inaccessible. The history of how this changed—of how the depths became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession, an engineering challenge and a political attraction—is the story that unfolds in this book.

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• Authors: Helen M Rozwadowski, Helen M. Rozwadowski, Helen M./ Earle Rozwadowski, Rozwadowski Helen M.
• Assisted by: Sylvia Earle (Foreword)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2008
• EAN: 9780674027565
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02756-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; History, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, Oceanography (seas and oceans)