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Hello in 1870 Jules Verne described the depotion in 2000 leagues under the sea he wrote

The season immense desert where man is never alone for he feels life quivering around him on every side

This fiction was actually rather closer to the truth than the signs of the time when the azoic theory held sway

And it was believed that nothing could exist below 600 meters now

I estimate there are more species in the deep ocean than in the rest of the planet put together somewhere between

2 million and a hundred million different species of organism are living on the ocean floor

Science has dispelled the old idea that huge underground tunnels join our oceans together and even old in ocean that giant

Crocken's look in the deep, but I'll see still retain much of their mystery and there've been more men on the surface of the moon

Then at the bottom of the ocean. So how should we understand the sea the lonely sea and the sky with me to discuss the science

It is attempted to plummet is the historian of oceanography Margaret Deacon until recently visiting research fellow at Southampton

Oceanography Center and author of scientists and the sea also where this is Tony Rice

Biological oceanography and author of deep ocean and Simon Chaffer

Read in history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Darwin College

Simon Chaffer the Royal Society was set up to investigate questions of science under Charles II's patronage in 1620

How important a part of that society's business was it to understand the sea? I think the sea plays

Enormous least significant role in the work of the of the early Royal Society right through from its foundation in the middle of the 17th century to the end of the 17th century

And one obvious reason for that is just how important maritime affairs were for the welfare of the kingdom

So that if you look at what fellows of the Royal Society were doing their interests range right across military

commercial and what we might now call more properly scientific interests the movements of fish of

Tides of how to improve

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