Scientists and the sea, 1650-1900 : a study of marine science /: a study of marine science. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Margaret Deacon.
• Other Names: Deacon, Margaret
• Contents: The Background to the Seventeenth Century Movement. 1. The Ancient World. 2. The Middle Ages. 3. The Renaissance -- Marine Science in the Seventeenth Century. 4. The Seventeenth Century Movement towards a Science of the Sea. 5. Theories and Observations of Tides. 6. Marine Science in the Works of Robert Boyle. 7. The Currents in the Strait of Gibraltar. 8. Robert Hooke and the Vanishing Harvest -- An Age of Philosophy and Curious Navigation. 9. Reawakening Interest in the Sea, 1700-1800. 10. Widening Horizons: The Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century. 11. Marine Science in the Early Nineteenth Century: A Period of Growth -- The Unsatisfied Ocean. 12. Wild-Meeting Oceans: the Study of Tides. 13. The Threshold of the Deep Ocean. 14. The Magnificent Generalization. 15. The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. 16. Edinburgh and the Growth of Oceanography at the end of the Nineteenth Century -- App. 1. Propositions of some Experiments to be made by the Earl of Sandwich in his present Voyage -- App. 2. Experiments made by Captain Robert Holmes on 2 and 30 May 1663 -- App. 3. Other Inquiries Concerning the Sea.
• Edition: [2nd ed.]
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (504 pages)
• Subjects: 551.46/009; Oceanography -- History; Marine biology -- History; Marine biology; Oceanography; Oceanografie; Meereskunde; Marine; Meer; Meereskunde; Naturwissenschaftler; Oceanography -- history; Marine Biology -- history; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351901574; 1351901575
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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