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Oceanographic Research is a multidisciplinary human activity aiming at increased knowledge of the nature and resources of the oceans. From the very beginning the main sources from which sprang the necessary energy to undertake such research, have been man’s insatiable curiosity, his urge to fathom the unknown, his eternal desire to find answers to his own questions. Even though often aided by heuristic processes, man’s knowledge implies conceiving nature in a certain way which means that his conceptions are mainly shaped according to his knowledge.
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© 1973 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Langeraar, W. (1973). Oceanographic Research. In: Bouchez, L.J., Kaijen, L. (eds) The Future of the Law of the Sea. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9485-3_5
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