[Article published in November 2020] When Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the isthmus of Panamá in 1513 and ventured on unknown waves, he named them South Sea. Five years later, Magellan navigating there in his turn in calm weather called the Pacific Ocean... Name that only became official at the end of the 19th century. This is a way of posing the problem: the seas and oceans are first of all conventions. These are human inventions. Hence the dif…
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[Article published in November 2020] When Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the isthmus of Panamá in 1513 and ventured on unknown waves, he named them South Sea. Five years later, Magellan navigating there in his turn in calm weather called the Pacific Ocean... Name that only became official at the end of the 19th century. This is a way of posing the problem: the seas and oceans are first of all conventions. These are human inventions. Hence the dif…