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Articles | Volume 17, issue 7
Articles | Volume 17, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3553-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-3553-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 17, issue 7
Data description paper
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28 Jul 2025
Data description paper |  | 28 Jul 2025

A revisiting of early 18th-century environmental data to identify Gulf of Lion properties before the industrial era

Marina Locritani, Sara Garvani, Giancarlo Tamburello, Antonio Guarnieri, and Giuseppe Manzella

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The Histoire physique de la mer, written by Luigi Ferdinando Marsili in 1725, was one of the first treatises to analyse the science of the sea. However, it is difficult to understand Marsili's original data. This paper reports the results of a major effort that has been undertaken to re-evaluate Marsili's observations, converting historical measurements into modern units – water weight to water density – with bathymetric profiles mapping the locations where these measurements were made and sea level variations alongside consideration of the associated error.
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