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Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea
Helen M. Rozwadowski
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Description for Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea
Paperback. Tells the story of how the ocean became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession, an engineering challenge and a political attraction. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: RBKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
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. In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities-in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of ... Read more
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. In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities-in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
386 g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674027565
SKU
V9780674027565
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About Helen M. Rozwadowski
Helen M. Rozwadowski is Assistant Professor of History and Coordinator of Maritime Studies, University of Connecticut at Avery Point.
Reviews for Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea
Fathoming the Ocean will clearly be welcomed as a serious contribution by historians of science, technology, and maritime culture. And in addition, as the foreword by marine biologist Sylvia Earle underscores, the story is also of immediate relevance to anyone who wonders when and how we came to understand - as we now urgently do - the ocean's importance to ... Read more