Fathoming the ocean : the discovery and exploration of the deep sea / / Helen M. Rozwadowski
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| Autore: |
Rozwadowski Helen M
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| Titolo: |
Fathoming the ocean : the discovery and exploration of the deep sea / / Helen M. Rozwadowski
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008, c2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 551.46 |
| Soggetto topico: | Underwater exploration |
| Ocean bottom - Research | |
| Oceanography - History | |
| Classificazione: | NU 1500 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-262) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fathoming the ocean |
| ISBN: | 9780674266889 |
| 0674266889 | |
| 9780674042940 | |
| 0674042948 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910957970103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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