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Autore |
ROZWADOWSKI Helen M |
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Fathoming the Ocean : The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea / / Helen M ROZWADOWSKI |
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Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , [2009] |
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©2005 |
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ISBN |
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0-674-26688-9 |
0-674-04294-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Electronic books. -- local |
Ocean bottom -- Research |
Oceanography -- History |
Underwater exploration |
Underwater exploration - Research |
Ocean bottom - History |
Oceanography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword by Sylvia A. Earle -- Chapter One. Fathoming the Fathomless -- Chapter Two. The Undiscovered Country -- Chapter Three. Soundings -- Chapter Four. A Sea Breeze -- Chapter Five. Dredging the Moon -- Chapter Six. Small World -- Epilogue -- Notes. Acknowledgments. Index -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 Fathoming the Ocean. |
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