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The Great Barrier Reef : history, science, heritage / / James Bowen and Margarita Bowen [[electronic resource]]
| The Great Barrier Reef : history, science, heritage / / James Bowen and Margarita Bowen [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Bowen James <1928-2012, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 454 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 578.7789476 |
| Soggetto topico |
Natural history - Australia - Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)
Coral reef conservation - Australia - Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) |
| ISBN |
1-107-13728-4
1-280-16264-3 9786610162642 1-139-14902-4 0-511-12134-2 0-511-06221-4 0-511-05588-9 0-511-30817-5 0-511-48168-3 0-511-07067-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Navigators and Naturalists in the Age of Sail -- Quest for the Great South Land -- Navigators in the New World -- Portugal and Spain: first navigators of Terra Australis? -- New explorers: Dutch, English, French -- South Pacific navigation and the Transit of Venus, 1769 -- Voyage of the Endeavour: Cook and the 'Labyrinth' -- The expedition to Tahiti -- Encounter with the Reef: through the 'Labyrinth', 1770 -- An error of judgment? Endeavour holed on a reef -- The Endeavour voyage published: the Reef mystique develops -- A bizarre controversy: did Cook discover the Reef? -- Endeavour Naturalists: 'A Separate Creation' -- Eighteenth century natural science: a ferment of ideas -- Endeavour voyage: first scientific study of the Reef -- Banks' Florilegium: the great compendium -- Fate of the Endeavour zoological specimens -- Matthew Flinders: Voyage of the Investigator -- British settlement of New South Wales -- Bligh and Flinders: early Reef surveys -- Flinders' surveys 1795-1799 -- The urgent issue: survey of the colony -- New Holland: missing links in nature's chain? -- Robert Brown: plant taxonomy in a new world -- Science assessed: Brown and Bauer in England 1805-1814 -- A Voyage to Terra Australis: the journal published, 1814 -- The Reef Explored: Early Surveys, 1821-1844 -- Expansion of the colony: first decades -- Australian coastline charts completed: Jeffreys and King 1815-1822 -- Geological observations: rise of controversy -- Accurate reef charts: Beagle survey 1837-1844 -- Jukes and MacGillivray: naturalists on the Fly 1843-1845. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450034203321 |
Bowen James <1928-2012, >
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Great Barrier Reef : history, science, heritage / / James Bowen and Margarita Bowen [[electronic resource]]
| The Great Barrier Reef : history, science, heritage / / James Bowen and Margarita Bowen [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Bowen James <1928-2012, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 454 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 578.7789476 |
| Soggetto topico |
Natural history - Australia - Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)
Coral reef conservation - Australia - Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) |
| ISBN |
1-107-13728-4
1-280-16264-3 9786610162642 1-139-14902-4 0-511-12134-2 0-511-06221-4 0-511-05588-9 0-511-30817-5 0-511-48168-3 0-511-07067-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Navigators and Naturalists in the Age of Sail -- Quest for the Great South Land -- Navigators in the New World -- Portugal and Spain: first navigators of Terra Australis? -- New explorers: Dutch, English, French -- South Pacific navigation and the Transit of Venus, 1769 -- Voyage of the Endeavour: Cook and the 'Labyrinth' -- The expedition to Tahiti -- Encounter with the Reef: through the 'Labyrinth', 1770 -- An error of judgment? Endeavour holed on a reef -- The Endeavour voyage published: the Reef mystique develops -- A bizarre controversy: did Cook discover the Reef? -- Endeavour Naturalists: 'A Separate Creation' -- Eighteenth century natural science: a ferment of ideas -- Endeavour voyage: first scientific study of the Reef -- Banks' Florilegium: the great compendium -- Fate of the Endeavour zoological specimens -- Matthew Flinders: Voyage of the Investigator -- British settlement of New South Wales -- Bligh and Flinders: early Reef surveys -- Flinders' surveys 1795-1799 -- The urgent issue: survey of the colony -- New Holland: missing links in nature's chain? -- Robert Brown: plant taxonomy in a new world -- Science assessed: Brown and Bauer in England 1805-1814 -- A Voyage to Terra Australis: the journal published, 1814 -- The Reef Explored: Early Surveys, 1821-1844 -- Expansion of the colony: first decades -- Australian coastline charts completed: Jeffreys and King 1815-1822 -- Geological observations: rise of controversy -- Accurate reef charts: Beagle survey 1837-1844 -- Jukes and MacGillivray: naturalists on the Fly 1843-1845. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783109303321 |
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Bowen James <1928-2012, >
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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