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Author Adamowsky, Natascha, author.

Title The mysterious science of the sea, 1775-1943 / by Natascha Adamowsky
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 256 pages) : illustrations
Series History and philosophy of technoscience ; no. 8
History and philosophy of technoscience ; no. 8.
Contents 1. Wondrous and terrible sea : stations of an unknown modernity -- 2. Wonder and mystery -- 3. Twenty thousand leagues under the sea : the overture to a passion -- 4. Mise-en-Sc©·ne : invented realities, or the mediality of wonders : the sea in the aquarium -- 5. Mise-en-Action : asleep in the deep
Notes Originally published 2015 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-207) and index
Subject Oceanography -- History
Oceanography
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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