Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea

Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea
ISBN-10
0674042948
ISBN-13
9780674042940
Category
Science
Pages
292
Language
English
Published
2009-06-30
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Helen M. Rozwadowski

Description

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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