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History and exploration of the oceans

 

In English 

  • Bascom, W. The crest of the wave adventures in oceanography. Harper & Row, 1988. [C42372]
  • Bleil, U. Geological history of the polar oceans : Arctic versus Antarctic. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990. [NG31609]
  • Bramwell, M. The Mitchell Beazley Atlas of the Oceans. Mitchel Beazley Limited, 1977. [D4844]
  • Carrington, R. A biography of the sea : the story of world ocean, its animal and plant populations, and its influence on human history. Chatto & Windus, 1960. [B47074]
  • Deacon, G.E.R. Oceans : an atlas-history of man's exploration of the deep. Paul Hamlyn, 1962. [C17717]
  • Deacon, M. Scientists and the sea 1650-1900 : a study of marine science. Academic Press, 1971. [B52876]
  • Freeman, O.W. Geography of the Pacific. John Wiley & Sons, 1951. [B38400]
  • Gregory, J.W. The geological history of the Atlantic Ocean : an address to the Geological Society of London at its Anniversary Meeting. Geological Society of London, 1929. [B15466]
  • Hill, M.N. The sea : ideas and observations on progress in the study of the seas. Interscience Publishers, 2014. [C17461]
  • Hunkins, K. The Late Cenozoic : history of the Arctic Ocean. [S.n.], 1971. [NG24693]
  • Idyll, C.P. The science of the sea : a history of oceanography. Nelson, 1970. [C19944]
  • Lenz, W. Ocean sciences : their history and relation to man. Bundesamt für Seechiffahrt und Hydrographie, 1990. [P6663/B22]
  • McCann, J. Wild sea : a history of Southern Ocean. University of Chicago Press, 2019. [C39676]
  • Merriman, D. Oceanography of the past. Springer, 1980. [B56512]
  • Outhwaite, L. The Atlantic : a history of an ocean. Coward-McCann, Inc., 1957. [B46121]
  • Reyment, R.A. Cretaceous history of the South Atlantic Ocean. [S.n.], 1973. [NG25114]
  • Riesenberg, F. The Pacific Ocean. London Museum Press, 1947. [B31110]
  • Roberts, C.M. The unnatural history of the sea. Island Press, 2007. [C33549]
  • Rozwadowski, H.M. The sea knows no boundaries : a century of marine science under ICES. ICES, 2002. [C35393]
  • Villiers, A. The Indian Ocean. Museum Press Limited, 1953. [B41989]
  • Yentsch, A.E. A partial bibliography of the Indian Ocean. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1962. [C17423]

 

In Dutch

  • [S.n.] Het jaar van de oceaan. Natuur & Techniek, 1998. [R4389]
  • Waghenaer, L. Spieghel der Zeevaerdt. Leyden 1584-1585. Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1964. [D2724] - Facsimile 
  • Waghenaer, L. Thresoor der Zeevaert. Leyden 1592. Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1965. [D2724] - Facsimile 

 

In French 

  • Capart, A. Naissance de l'océanographie en Belgique. Un précurseur : le professeur Gustave Gilson (1859-1944). In Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique de Monaco, n° spécial 2, 1968, 2 p. [BE RBINS AJL BP/16-8]
  • Euzen, A. L'océan à découvert. CNRS éditions, 2017. [C39096]
  • Houvenaghel, G. Contributions de la Belgique au développement de l'océanographie au XIXe siècle : rôle du professeur Alphonse Renard (1842-1903). In Actes du Congrès de Mons, t. 4, 2000, p. 571-584. [NB19416]
  • Le Danois, E. L'Atlantique : histoire et vie d'un océan. Albin Michel, 1938. [S4085]
  • Lemoine, P. Études géologiques dans le nord de Madagascar : contributions à l'histoire géologique de l'Océan Indien. Librairie A. Hermann, 1906. [NG9964]

 

In Russian

  • Udintsev, G.B. Геолого-геофизический атлас Индийского океана = Geological-Geophysical Atlas of the Indian Ocean. GUGK, 1975. [D4695]
  • [S.n.] История мирового океана : геологическое строение, происхождение, развитние = The history of the world ocean : geological structure, origin, development. Издательство "Наука", 1971. [C20002]

 

Maps

  • Graves, W. Pacific Ocean ; Indian Ocean. National Geographic Society, 1992. [P639/181,6]