As a feature of the Fish Revolution (1400–1700), the early modern “invention” of the Grand Banks in literary and cartographical documents facilitated a massive and unprecedented extraction of cod from the waters of the north Atlantic and created the Cod/Sack trade Triangle. This overlapped with the southern Atlantic Slave, Sugar, and Tobacco Triangle to capitalise modern European and North American societies. In 1719, Pierre de Charlevoix claimed that the Grand Banks was “properly a mountain, hid under water,” and noted its cod population “seems to equal that of the grains of sand which cover this bank.” However, two centuries later in 1992, in the face of the collapse of the fishery, and fearing its extinction, a moratorium was placed on five centuries of harvesting Grand Banks cod. The invention and mining of its waters serves as a bellwether for the massive resource extractions of modernity that drive the current leviathan and “wicked problem” of global warming. The digital environmental humanities narrative of this study is parsed together from 83 pieces of Grand Banks charting from 1504 to 1833, which are juxtaposed through Humanities GIS applications with English and French cod‐catch records kept between 1675 and 1831, letters regarding Cabot's 1497 voyage, Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611) and scientific essays by De Brahms (1772) and Franklin (1786).
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机译：作为鱼类革命（1400-1700）的特征，文学和制造文献中的宏伟银行的早期现代“发明”促进了来自北大西洋水域的大规模和前所未有的鳕鱼，并创造了COD / SACK贸易三角形。这与南部大西洋奴隶，糖和烟草三角形重叠，以利用现代欧洲和北美社会。 1719年，Pierre de Charlevoix声称，宏伟的银行是“恰当地是一座山，躲在水下”，并指出其COD人口“似乎等于覆盖这家银行的沙粒谷物。”然而，1992年晚些时候，面对渔业的崩溃，担心灭绝，暂停举行了五个世纪的收获宏伟银行鳕鱼。本发明和水域的采矿用作大规模资源提取现代性的领导物，这使得目前的利维坦和“邪恶问题”的全球变暖。本研究的数字环境人文叙述从1504年到1833年的83个宏伟银行分组，它通过人文学科与英语和法国鳕鱼捕获记录并列在1675年至1831年之间，关于Cabot的1497航行的信件，莎士比亚的Tempest（1611）和De Brahms（1772）和富兰克林（1786年）的科学论文。
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