OCEA 2000X Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Matthew Fontaine Maury, Submarine
25 Sep 2018
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In greek mythology, oceanus is the titan son of the gods uranus and gaia: oceanus is the god of the backward-flowing river ocean, poseidon is the olympian god of the seas, responsible for storms and earthquakes. The polynesians: the first people to venture out into the open ocean (pacific, discovered many islands (easter, hawaiian, problem of scale how big is the earth, problem of position where am i. Size of the earth: the greeks figured out the size of the earth and determined that the earth was round, latitude is y- axis, longitude is x - axis, latitude was used by norsemen to north america. Finding longitude: every hour in the day corresponds to 15 degrees of longitude. Early oceanographic scientists: james cook, first european to set foot on australia, matthew fontaine maury, credited as giving rise to modern oceanography (gulfstream, the challenger expedition was devoted specifically to ocean science (led by the uk)
