Fathoming the ocean : the discovery and exploration of the deep sea / Helen M. Rozwadowski.
Fathoming the ocean : the discovery and exploration of the deep sea / Helen M. Rozwadowski.
Fathoming the ocean : the discovery and exploration of the deep sea / Helen M. Rozwadowski.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N551.46/131
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English
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Physical content
xii, 276 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Sylvia A. Earle -- 1. Fathoming the fathomless -- 2. The undiscovered country -- 3. Soundings -- 4. A sea breeze -- 5. Dredging the moon -- 6. Small world -- 7. Epilogue.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2005.
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"By the middle of the nineteenth 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 F...
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Fathoming the ocean : the discovery and exploration of the deep sea / Helen M. Rozwadowski.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-262) and index.
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N551.46/131
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74VKPBVy783M
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKPBVy783M
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0674016912 (alk. paper)
9780674016910 (alk. paper)
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551.46
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991019770079702626
