Book ID: CBB000002090

Geophysics in the affairs of man: A personalized history of exploration geophysics and its allied sciences of seismology and oceanography (1982)

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Bates, Charles C. (Author)
Gaskell, Thomas F. (Author)
Rice, Robert B. (Author)


Pergamon


Publication Date: 1982
Physical Details: xx + 492 pp.; illus.; bibl.; index

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000002090/

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Authors & Contributors
Schröder, Wilfried
Sörlin, Sverker
Adamson, Matthew
Antonello, Alessandro
Cartwright, David Edgar
Cobos Bueno, José M.
Journals
Journal of Geophysical Research
Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica
Almagest
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Australian Journal of Politics and History
Cold War History
Publishers
Science Edition
Ashgate Publishing
Concepts
Geophysics
Physics
Astrophysics
Cold War
Cross-national interaction
Earth sciences
People
Carrasco Garrorena, Pedro
Halley, Edmond
Humboldt, Alexander von
Kepler, Johannes
Lamanon, Jean Honoré Robert de Paul, Chevalier de
Mairan, Jean Jacques Dortous de
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
Polar regions
Denmark
United States
Antarctica
Brazil
Soviet Union
Institutions
American Institute of Physics
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
Niels Bohr Library
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