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Soundings and Crossings Nobel prizes as seen and experienced byAnderson, Katharine, and Helen M. Rozwadowski, eds. The scale, dynamism and inaccessibility of the ocean have always made it a challenging object of knowledge. But until the very recent era, the study of ocean phenomena required human observers to set off to sea, in a direct encounter with those challenges. The histories collected in this volume focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, analyzing the wide range of practices, tools and