Matthew Fontaine Maury
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Matthew Fontaine Maury
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Matthew Fontaine Maury was an American oceanographer and naval officer, serving the United States and then joining the Confederacy during the American Civil War. He was nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas" and is considered a founder of modern oceanography. He wrote extensively on the subject, and his book, The Physical Geography of the Sea (1855), was the first comprehensive work on oceanography to be published. In 1825, at 19, Maury obtained, through U.S. Representative Sam Houston, a midshipman
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American oceanographer and naval officer (1806–1873)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fontaine_Maury
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2003-11-10T03:54:15Z
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2024-08-27T03:32:48Z
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