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Overview"The purpose of this work is to help make better known the thought and work of those who pioneered the scientific study of the sea, from the 17th century to the 20th century. This text asks, what motives did these early scientists have for pursuing the study of the sea? Did they they think of themselves as contributing to a distinct ""science of the sea""? and to what extent were they representative of the scientific community of the time and what degree of recognition or support did it afford them? The first part of this book is a sketch of scientific thought about the sea up to the scientific revolution of the 17th century. The other three sections deal with marine science in the 17th century, in the 18th century and early 19th centuryand in the middle and late 19th century." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Margaret DeaconPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited Edition: 2nd edition Weight: 0.839kg ISBN: 9781859283523ISBN 10: 1859283527 Pages: 504 Publication Date: 18 September 1997 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction & preface to 2nd edition; The background to the 17th-century movement; The Ancient World; The Middle Ages; The Renaissance; Marine science in the 17th century; The 17th-century movement towards a science of the sea; Theories and observations of tides; Marine science in the works of Robert Boyle; The currents in the Strait of Gibralter; Robert Hooke and the vanishing harvest; An age of philosophy and curious navigation; Reawakening interest in the sea, 1700-1800; Widening horizons: the last quarter of the 18th century; Marine science in the early 19th century: a period of growth; The unsatisfied ocean; Wild-meeting ocenas: the study of tides; The threshold of the deep ocean; The magnificent generalization; the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger; Edinburgh and the growth of oceanography at the end of the 19th century; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.ReviewsSome reviews of the first edition - 'extremely readable, exhaustively documented and well referenced' Times Higher Education Supplement 'Margaret Deacon's pathbreaking monograph is...especially welcome. In 400 pages she has magisterially surveyed the history of man's knowledge of the oceans from the beginnings to the turn of the twentieth century - the first time this has been done with depth and authority' Isis Second edition: 'Scientists and the Sea...should be considered required reading for any serious student of the sea.' The Northern Mariner, Vol. VIII, No. 2 '..a must-have volume even for those lucky enough to have a copy of the first edition...Scientists and the Sea is as vital and important now as it was during the formative stages of our discipline and it has been complemented by the new material added in the second edition. No one interested in the history of the marine sciences should be without it.' History of Oceanography, No. 10 'a magnificent survey of the origins and growth of oceanography from the time of ancient Greece...To the original text Deacon has added a new introduction and an extensively updated bibliography, both of which enhance its importance and relevance...Of this edition, as of the first, one can say that Scientists and the Sea should be the starting point for any historian studying the history of oceanography or marine biology.' ISIS, Vol. 89, No. 4 'Over a quarter of a century after its original publication in 1971, Deacon's book remains the primary reference source for history of marine science...Several additions to the text in the second edition make it much more valuable than the original..Deacon's introduction to the second edition..provides an excellent historiographic orientation to the field.' Earth Sciences History, Vol. 17, No. 2 Author InformationMargaret Deacon, Department of Oceanography, University of Southampton, UK Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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