Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This volume is a compilation of articles, with the exception of the last, published originally in the Atlantic monthly.
Soundings from the Atlantic
Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This volume is a compilation of articles, with the exception of the last, published originally in the Atlantic monthly.
Soundings from the Atlantic
Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Soundings from the Atlantic
Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780461957204
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
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Soundings from the Atlantic
Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesExamination of Some Deep Soundings from the Atlantic Ocean
Author: Jacob Whitman BaileySounding from the Atlantic
Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Soundings in Atlantic History
Author: Bernard BailynPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674032764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
This is a cutting-edge collection of original essays on the connections and structures that made the Atlantic world a coherent regional entity.
Upper Air Soundings During Atlantic Trade-Wind Expedition (1969)
Author: Soundings
Author: Hali FeltPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466847468
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Her maps of the ocean floor have been called "one of the most remarkable achievements in modern cartography", yet no one knows her name. Soundings is the story of the enigmatic, unknown woman behind one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century. Before Marie Tharp, geologist and gifted draftsperson, the whole world, including most of the scientific community, thought the ocean floor was a vast expanse of nothingness. In 1948, at age 28, Marie walked into the newly formed geophysical lab at Columbia University and practically demanded a job. The scientists at the lab were all male; the women who worked there were relegated to secretary or assistant. Through sheer willpower and obstinacy, Marie was given the job of interpreting the soundings (records of sonar pings measuring the ocean's depths) brought back from the ocean-going expeditions of her male colleagues. The marriage of artistry and science behind her analysis of this dry data gave birth to a major work: the first comprehensive map of the ocean floor, which laid the groundwork for proving the then-controversial theory of continental drift. When combined, Marie's scientific knowledge, her eye for detail and her skill as an artist revealed not a vast empty plane, but an entire world of mountains and volcanoes, ridges and rifts, and a gateway to the past that allowed scientists the means to imagine how the continents and the oceans had been created over time. Just as Marie dedicated more than twenty years of her professional life to what became the Lamont Geological Observatory, engaged in the task of mapping every ocean on Earth, she dedicated her personal life to her great friendship with her co-worker, Bruce Heezen. Partners in work and in many ways, partners in life, Marie and Bruce were devoted to one another as they rose to greater and greater prominence in the scientific community, only to be envied and finally dismissed by their beloved institute. They went on together, refining and perfecting their work and contributing not only to humanity's vision of the ocean floor, but to the way subsequent generations would view the Earth as a whole. With an imagination as intuitive as Marie's, brilliant young writer Hali Felt brings to vivid life the story of the pioneering scientist whose work became the basis for the work of others scientists for generations to come.
Soundings from the Atlantic
Author: Oliver Wendell HolmesPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781357215286
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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