Matthew Fontaine Maury
1806-1873
American Oceanographer
The first real scientist of the sea and the first oceanographer, Matthew Maury was called "Pathfinder of the Oceans." Scientific n...
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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 ...
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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 Th...
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Matthew Fontaine Maury
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Matthew Fontaine Maury