Review ID: CBB937116506

Review of "Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole" (2021)

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Essay review: Antony Adler. Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea. 256 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2019. $39.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780674972018. Sarah Dry. Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole. 332 pp., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. $30 (cloth); ISBN 9780226507705.

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Authors & Contributors
Ceccarelli, Francesco
Greci, Roberto
Lamberini, Daniela
Lizzini, Olga
Mills, Eric L.
Mussini, Massimo
Journals
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
The Bridge: Journal of the National Academy of Engineering
Publishers
McGill-Queen's University Press
Olschki
Oxford University Press
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
The MIT Press
University of Toronto Press
Concepts
Earth sciences
Hydrography
Water
Water resource management
Natural resource management
Oceanography
People
Leonardo da Vinci
Time Periods
Medieval
Renaissance
16th century
14th century
15th century
21st century
Places
Italy
United States
Tuscany (Italy)
Canada
Europe
Russia
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