Science and Discovery
What role has science played in the discovery and fate of the Antarctic? Science was a motivating factor in the dispatch of the earliest expeditions to Antarctica. In the eighteenth century, explorers and their sponsors wanted to fill in the empty spaces on the globe...
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Oxford University Press
2019
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190641320.003.0005 |
| Summary: | What role has science played in the discovery and fate of the Antarctic? Science was a motivating factor in the dispatch of the earliest expeditions to Antarctica. In the eighteenth century, explorers and their sponsors wanted to fill in the empty spaces on the globe... |
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