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

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mills, Eric L., 1936- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Oceanography > History.
Oceanographers > Biography.
Océanographie > Histoire.
Océanographes > Biographies.
SCIENCE > History.
Oceanographers.
Oceanography.
Meereskunde
Meereskunde > Geschichte.
Meereskunde.
Forschung.
History.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The fluid envelope of our planet
  • The way of the sea : knowledge of oceanic circulation before the nineteenth century
  • Groping through the darkness : the problem of deep ocean circulation
  • Boundaries built with numbers : making the ocean mathematical
  • Evangelizing in the wilderness : dynamic oceanography comes to Canada
  • 'Physische Meereskunde' : from Germany to physical oceanography in Berlin, 1900-1935
  • 'Découverte de l'océan' : Monaco and the failure of French oceanography
  • Slipping away from Norway : dynamic oceanography comes to the United States
  • Facing the Atlantic and the Pacific : dynamic oceanography re-emerges in Canada, 1930-1950
  • Studying The oceans and the oceans
  • Appendix : Textbooks of physical oceanography.

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