The American naval officer and oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) is remembered chiefly for his The Physical Geography of the Sea of 1855, now recognized as the first textbook of modern oceanography. On Jan. 14, 1806, Matthew Fontaine...

Matthew Fontaine Maury was born near Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1806, and entered the Navy at age eighteen. By age twenty-four he had circumnavigated the world and six years later published A New Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Navigation,...

1806-1873 American Oceanographer The first real scientist of the sea and the first oceanographer, Matthew Maury was called "Pathfinder of the Oceans." Scientific navigation did not exist before Maury, and his work improved the safety of...

Matthew Fontaine Maury (January 14, 1806 – February 1, 1873), USN was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator. He was nicknamed Pathfinder of the Seas and...

CHESTER G. HEARN In the early 1800s, seafaring was a risky proposition, Chronometers were available to only a few ships, and sailors lacked a map of the oceans' surface currents and winds. Matthew Fontaine Maury made sailing safer and far more efficient....

A fictional artistic persona muses on the mutinies to come CLAIRE FONTAINE Reena Spaulings Fine Art 371 Grand Street Through October 21 Claire Fontaine is the fictional artistic persona created by two Paris-based women, neither named Claire or Fontaine....