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Exploration and science, social impact and interaction, Michael S. Reidy, Gary Kroll, Erik M. Conway

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Exploration and science

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Michael S. Reidy, Gary Kroll, Erik M. Conway

Science and society

social impact and interaction

A simple question: Which came first, advances in navigation or successful voyages of discovery? A complicated answer: Both and neither. For more than four centuries, scientists and explorers have worked together sometimes intentionally and sometimes not in an ongoing, symbiotic partnership. When early explorers brought back exotic flora and fauna from newly discovered lands, scientists were able to challenge ancient authorities for the first time. As a result, scientists not only invented new navigational tools to encourage exploration, but also created a new approach to studying nature, in which observations were more important than reason and authority. The story of the relationship between science and exploration, analyzed here for the first time, is nothing less than the history of modern science and the expanding human universe

Navigating the oceans -- Ordering nature in the age of enlightenment -- Humboldt and the rise of the geophysical sciences -- Natural history in the nineteenth century -- Scientific exploration of a manifest America -- The exploratory tradition in the ocean sciences -- Human exploration under the sea -- Human exploration of the high frontier -- Robotic space exploration