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A Brief History of Oceanography
Beginnings of Ocean Science
- Captain James Cook (1728-1779)
- Benjamin Franklin & Timothy Folger
- Sir John & James Ross
- Edward Forbes (1815-1854)
- The Challenger Expedition (1872- 1876)
- Charles Darwin's Beagle Voyage (1831-1836) - led to theory of coral reef formation, The Origin of Species (much later, 1859)