This paper examines the network of media, institutions, and actors that helped create the sea as an epistemic object in nineteenth-century US naval administration. Based on paper technologies such as lists, tables, and logbooks, early oceanography was essentially an archival practice and data processing. In contrast to pelagic histories of the “oceanic turn,” this paper argues that oceanography developed as a science of the archive. It challenges a focus on geographic features in earlier analyses by showing that the ocean of oceanography is not only a body of water between areas of land but also a data space that transcends the boundary between land and sea.

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数据海洋；或者，档案馆中的海洋学家

本文探讨了在 19 世纪美国海军管理中帮助将海洋创造为认知对象的媒体、机构和行动者网络。基于列表、表格和航海日志等纸质技术，早期海洋学本质上是一种档案实践和数据处理。与“海洋转向”的远洋历史相反，本文认为海洋学是作为一门档案科学而发展起来的。它挑战了早期分析中对地理特征的关注，表明海洋学不仅是陆地区域之间的水体，而且是超越陆地和海洋边界的数据空间。