Neptune’s Laboratory : : Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea / / Antony Adler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2019
• VerfasserIn: Adler, Antony,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Rok vydání: 2019
• Jazyk: English
• Fyzický popis: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Discovering Wonder in the Deep --; 2. Marine Science for the Nation or for the World? --; 3. Scientific Internationalism in a Pacific World --; 4. Cold War Science on the Seafloor --; 5. Ocean Science and Governance in the Anthropocene --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Shrnutí: We have long been fascinated with the oceans and sought “to pierce the profundity” of their depths. But the history of marine science also tells us a lot about ourselves. Antony Adler explores the ways in which scientists, politicians, and the public have invoked ocean environments in imagining the fate of humanity and of the planet.
• Médium: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674241893; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674241893
• Přístup: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Antony Adler.

We have long been fascinated with the oceans and sought “to pierce the profundity” of their depths. But the history of marine science also tells us a lot about ourselves. Antony Adler explores the ways in which scientists, politicians, and the public have invoked ocean environments in imagining the...