From brusselsjournal.com
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Since more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered
by seawater, detailed studies of the oceans were of great importance to science
as well as to practical navigation. The first modern text devoted exclusively
to marine science was Histoire physique de la mer (1725) by the Italian military man and naturalist Luigi Ferdinando
Marsigli (1658-1730), who assembled information about water temperature,
salinity, currents, ocean plants and...
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