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Voyage of the Challenger : The Atlantic
Published in 1877, this acclaimed two-volume work sheds light on the pioneering oceanographic expedition that discovered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The Voyage of the "Challenger"
Wyville Thomson was the chief scientist of the Challenger Expedition, a major landmark in the history of oceanography. This item is a popular account of the marine life observed, physical oceanography, and physiography of the Atlantic Ocean. Although filled with maps, diagrams, and sketches of the abyssal marine life brought up by their dredgings, the most significant illustration in this work is the frontispiece of Volume 2, a map of the Atlantic Ocean that showed the outline of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Fathoming the Ocean
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. In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities—in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The ocean emerged as important new territor...
Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest
A gripping tale of exploration aboard H.M.S. Challenger, an expedition that laid the foundations for modern oceanography From late 1872 to 1876, H.M.S. Challenger explored the world’s oceans. Conducting deep sea soundings, dredging the ocean floor, recording temperatures, observing weather, and collecting biological samples, the expedition laid the foundations for modern oceanography. Following the ship’s naturalists and their discoveries, earth scientist Doug Macdougall engagingly tells a story of Victorian-era adventure and ties these early explorations to the growth of modern scientific fields. In this lively story of discovery, hardship, and humor, Macdougall examines the work of the expedition’s scientists, especially the naturalist Henry Moseley, who rigorously categorized the flora and fauna of the islands the ship visited, and the legacy of John Murray, considered the father of modern oceanography. Macdougall explores not just the expedition itself but also the iconic place that H.M.S. Challenger has achieved in the annals of ocean exploration and science.
