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The fluid envelope of our planet : how the study of ocean currents became a science
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The fluid envelope of our planet : how the study of ocean currents became a science

Author: Eric L Mills
Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A detailed and beautifully written account of the history of oceanography, The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet is an engaging account of the emergence of a scientific discipline.

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Genre/Form: Biography
Biographies
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Eric L Mills
ISBN: 0802096972 9780802096975
OCLC Number: 695730419
Description: xii, 434 p : ill., maps, ports.
Contents: CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet 3 1 The Way of the Sea: Knowledge of Oceanic Circulation before the Nineteenth Century 10 2 Groping through the Darkness: The Problem of Deep Ocean Circulation 44 3 Boundaries Built with Numbers: Making the Ocean Mathematical 82 4 Evangelizing in the Wilderness: Dynamic Oceanography Comes to Canada 111 5 'Physische Meereskunde': From Geography to Physical Oceanography in Berlin, 1900 1935 137 6 'Decouverte de l'ocean ': Monaco and the Failure of French Oceanography 162 7 Slipping away from Norway: Dynamic Oceanography Comes to the United States 192 8 Facing the Atlantic and the Pacific: Dynamic Oceanography Re-emerges in Canada, 1930 1950 232 9 Studying The Oceans and the Oceans 258 Appendix: Textbooks of Physical Oceanography 287 Notes 291 References 347 Index 419
Responsibility: Eric L. Mills.

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'It is a fascinating account of what went before and got us to where we are today in our understanding of the circulation of the ocean and all that this means to marine biology, marine chemistry and Read more...

 
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