TY - GEN AB - 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. AU - Rozwadowski, Helen M., CN - GC65.R695 2008eb DO - 10.4159/9780674042940 DO - doi ID - 1478691 JF - HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) JF - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 KW - Ocean bottom KW - Oceanography. KW - Underwater exploration KW - SCIENCE / History. LA - eng LA - In English. LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674042940 N2 - 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. SN - 9780674042940 T1 - Fathoming the Ocean :The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea / TI - Fathoming the Ocean :The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674042940 ER -