The Fluid Envelope of our Planet : : How the Study of Ocean Currents Became a Science / / Eric L. Mills.
Oceans have had a mysterious allure for centuries, inspiring fears, myths, and poetic imaginations. By the early twentieth century, however, scientists began to see oceans as physical phenomena that could be understood through mathematical geophysics. The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet explores the sc...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet
- 1 The Way of the Sea: Knowledge of Oceanic Circulation before the Nineteenth Century
- 2 Groping through the Darkness: The Problem of Deep Ocean Circulation
- 3 Boundaries Built with Numbers: Making the Ocean Mathematical
- 4 Evangelizing in the Wilderness: Dynamic Oceanography Comes to Canada
- 5 'Physische Meereskunde': From Geography to Physical Oceanography in Berlin, 1900B1935
- 6 'Découverte de l'océan': Monaco and the Failure of French Oceanography
- 7 Slipping away from Norway: Dynamic Oceanography Comes to the United States
- 8 Facing the Atlantic and the Pacific: Dynamic Oceanography Re-emerges in Canada, 1930-1950
- 9 Studying The Oceans and the Oceans
- Appendix: Textbooks of Physical Oceanography
- Notes
- References
- Index