Exploration and science social impact and interaction
Title:
Exploration and science social impact and interaction
Author:
Reidy, Michael S.
ISBN:
9781576079867
9781576079850
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2007.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 371 p.) : ill., maps.
Series:
Science and society
Science and society (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Contents:
Navigating the oceans -- Ordering nature in the age of enlightenment -- Humboldt and the rise of the geophysical sciences -- Natural history in the nineteenth century -- Scientific exploration of a manifest America -- The exploratory tradition in the ocean sciences -- Human exploration under the sea -- Human exploration of the high frontier -- Robotic space exploration.
Abstract:
This comprehensive volume explores the intricate, mutually dependent relationship between science and exploration--how each has repeatedly built on the discoveries of the other and, in the process, opened new frontiers. When Britain launched its campaigns of overseas expansion in the 19th century, it enlisted the help of scientists such as Charles Darwin and Aldous Huxley.
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Electronic Access:
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