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The fluid envelope of our planet : how the study of ocean currents became a science / / Eric L. Mills
| The fluid envelope of our planet : how the study of ocean currents became a science / / Eric L. Mills |
| Autore | Mills Eric L. <1936-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (447 p.) |
| Disciplina | 551.4609 |
| Soggetto topico |
Oceanography - History
Oceanographers |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-4426-6360-X
1-4426-9774-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet -- 1 The Way of the Sea: Knowledge of Oceanic Circulation before the Nineteenth Century -- 2 Groping through the Darkness: The Problem of Deep Ocean Circulation -- 3 Boundaries Built with Numbers: Making the Ocean Mathematical -- 4 Evangelizing in the Wilderness: Dynamic Oceanography Comes to Canada -- 5 'Physische Meereskunde': From Geography to Physical Oceanography in Berlin, 1900B1935 -- 6 'Découverte de l'océan': Monaco and the Failure of French Oceanography -- 7 Slipping away from Norway: Dynamic Oceanography Comes to the United States -- 8 Facing the Atlantic and the Pacific: Dynamic Oceanography Re-emerges in Canada, 1930-1950 -- 9 Studying The Oceans and the Oceans -- Appendix: Textbooks of Physical Oceanography -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458645503321 |
Mills Eric L. <1936->
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| Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The fluid envelope of our planet : how the study of ocean currents became a science / / Eric L. Mills
| The fluid envelope of our planet : how the study of ocean currents became a science / / Eric L. Mills |
| Autore | Mills Eric L. <1936-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (447 p.) |
| Disciplina | 551.4609 |
| Soggetto topico |
Oceanography - History
Oceanographers |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Biographies.
History Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-4426-6360-X
1-4426-9774-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : The fluid envelope of our planet -- The way of the sea : knowledge of oceanic circulation before the nineteenth century -- Groping through the darkness : the problem of deep ocean circulation -- Boundaries built with numbers : making the ocean mathematical -- Evangelizing in the wilderness : dynamic oceanography comes to Canada -- 'Physische Meereskunde' : from Germany to physical oceanography in Berlin, 1900-1935 -- 'Decouverte de l'ocean' : Monaco and the failure of French oceanography -- Slipping away from Norway : dynamic oceanography comes to the United States -- Facing the Atlantic and the Pacific : dynamic oceanography re-emerges in Canada, 1930-1950 -- Studying The oceans and the oceans -- Appendix : Textbooks of physical oceanography. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791656903321 |
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Mills Eric L. <1936->
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| Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The fluid envelope of our planet : how the study of ocean currents became a science / / Eric L. Mills
| The fluid envelope of our planet : how the study of ocean currents became a science / / Eric L. Mills |
| Autore | Mills Eric L. <1936-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (447 p.) |
| Disciplina | 551.4609 |
| Soggetto topico |
Oceanography - History
Oceanographers |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Biographies.
History Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-4426-6360-X
1-4426-9774-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : The fluid envelope of our planet -- The way of the sea : knowledge of oceanic circulation before the nineteenth century -- Groping through the darkness : the problem of deep ocean circulation -- Boundaries built with numbers : making the ocean mathematical -- Evangelizing in the wilderness : dynamic oceanography comes to Canada -- 'Physische Meereskunde' : from Germany to physical oceanography in Berlin, 1900-1935 -- 'Decouverte de l'ocean' : Monaco and the failure of French oceanography -- Slipping away from Norway : dynamic oceanography comes to the United States -- Facing the Atlantic and the Pacific : dynamic oceanography re-emerges in Canada, 1930-1950 -- Studying The oceans and the oceans -- Appendix : Textbooks of physical oceanography. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818474003321 |
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Mills Eric L. <1936->
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| Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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