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245 10 a| Fathoming the Oceanh| [electronic resource]:b| The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea;

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520 8 a| Annotationb| 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&mdash;of how the depths became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession, an engineering challenge and a political attraction&mdash;is the story that unfolds inFathoming the Ocean.In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities&mdash;in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The ocean emerged as important new territory, and scientific interests intersected with those of merchant-industrialists and politicians. Rozwadowski documents the popular crazes that coincided with these interests&mdash;from children's sailor suits to the home aquarium and the surge in ocean travel. She describes how, beginning in the 1860s, oceanography moved from yachts onto the decks of oceangoing vessels, and landlubber naturalists found themselves navigating the routines of a working ship's physical and social structures.Fathoming the Oceanoffers a rare and engaging look into our fascination with the deep sea and into the origins of oceanography&mdash;origins still visible in a science that focuses the efforts of physicists, chemists, geologists, biologists, and engineers on the common enterprise of understanding a vast, three-dimensional, alien space.;

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650 4 a| Ocean Bottom;

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Fathoming the Ocean The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea

Author/creator	Rozwadowski, Helen M. Author
Other author	Earle, Sylvia A. 1955- Foreword by
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Belknap Press [Imprint] Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Description	304 p. ill 08.250 x 05.750 in.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Underwater Exploration Ocean Bottom Oceanography

Summary	Annotation <p>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&mdash;of how the depths became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession, an engineering challenge and a political attraction&mdash;is the story that unfolds in<i>Fathoming the Ocean</i>.</p><p>In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities&mdash;in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The ocean emerged as important new territory, and scientific interests intersected with those of merchant-industrialists and politicians. Rozwadowski documents the popular crazes that coincided with these interests&mdash;from children's sailor suits to the home aquarium and the surge in ocean travel. She describes how, beginning in the 1860s, oceanography moved from yachts onto the decks of oceangoing vessels, and landlubber naturalists found themselves navigating the routines of a working ship's physical and social structures.</p><p><i>Fathoming the Ocean</i>offers a rare and engaging look into our fascination with the deep sea and into the origins of oceanography&mdash;origins still visible in a science that focuses the efforts of physicists, chemists, geologists, biologists, and engineers on the common enterprise of understanding a vast, three-dimensional, alien space.</p>
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
ISBN	9780674027565
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