History of oceanography stevencoley forestmcnear 2nd

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    Ptolemy

    Ptolemy
    explained the orbit of the sun, moon and plants called them epicycles.
  • 240

    Eratosthenes

    Eratosthenes
    Discovered motions of the earth and circumferance.
  • 320

    Pytheas

    Pytheas
    Discovered the North Star.
  • Jan 6, 1300

    The compass rose

    The compass rose
    The compass rose is the first thing made to show direction.
  • Jan 4, 1400

    Prince Henry The Navigator

    Prince Henry The Navigator
    Explored the african coast and many other places.
  • Jan 4, 1513

    Ferdinand Magellan

    Ferdinand Magellan
    in 1513 ferdinand sailed the globe through s passage way now called the straights of magellan

  • James Cook

    James Cook
    Know for saving the health of his crew with lime juice and made a chronometer.

  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin
    Discovered the first map of the gold stream.

  • Matthew Maury

    Matthew Maury
    US Navy officer who made Naval Charts that helped avoid bad wheather.

  • SONAR

    SONAR
    Waves bounce off nearby objects and some of them reflect back to the object that made the noise

  • Charles Darwiin

    Charles Darwiin
    Published natural selection and the origin of the species and investigated nature as a whole leading to big help to biology.

  • Challenger Experdition

    Challenger Experdition
    First large-scale voyage that increased the knowknowledge of the distribution of life in the ocean and of the chemical and physical properties of the ocean.

  • Bathysphere

    Bathysphere
    a spherical deep-sea submersivle which is unpowered and is lowerd into the ocean on a cable.