Charting Neptune's Realm: From Classical Mythology to Satellite Imagery (Exhibit Guide)

Authors

Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education

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Description

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

4-2000

Publisher

Osher Map Library - University of Southern Maine

City

Portland, Maine

Keywords

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

Disciplines

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

Recommended Citation

Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, "Charting Neptune's Realm: From Classical Mythology to Satellite Imagery (Exhibit Guide)" (2000). Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications. 5.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/oml_miscellaneous/5

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