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Charting Neptune's Realm: From Classical Mythology to Satellite Imagery.

April 4, 2000 to January 11, 2001

The charts in this exhibition explore how mariners have distinguished one piece of water from any other, by determining what phenomena can be delineated across the vast, trackless ocean and by developing notations to express those phenomena.

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2003

Publisher

Osher Map Library - University of Southern Maine

City

Portland, Maine

Keywords

Cartography, Nautical Charts, Currents, Navigation, Oceanography, Icebergs, Weather

Disciplines

Geography | History | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oceanography | Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology | Other Geography

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Charting Neptune's Realm: From Classical Mythology to Satellite Imagery


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