Matthew Fontaine Maury

Why Is Matthew Fontaine Maury Influential?

According to Wikipedia, 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 , was the first comprehensive work on oceanography to be published.

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Matthew Fontaine Maury's Published Works

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Published Works

The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology (78)
The Physical Geography or The Sea (74)
Oceanic Currents, and Their Connection with the Proposed Central-America Canals (6)
The physical geography of the sea. By M.F. Maury ... (4)
On the Physical Geography of the Sea, in Connection with the Antarctic Regions (2)
Biela's Comet 1846 (2)
Letter [supposed new planet] (1852) (1)
Observations of Pandora, Egeria and Leucothea, made with the Washington Equatorial by J. Ferguson Comm. by Comd. Maury (0)
Erratum [Letters to the editor [comet observations] (1850) (0)
On the variable light of Clio [(12) Victoria] (1851) (0)
Matthew Fontaine Maury letter to a faculty member of the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland; Washington, D.C., December 20, 1860. (0)
Letters to the editor [comet observations] (1850) (0)
Washington observations made during 1849 and 1850. Mean right ascensions for 1850.0 of stars observed with the west transit instrument. (0)
National Observatory Washington. Observations of Euphrosyne, made with the filar‐micrometer of the Equatorial, by James Ferguson (0)
Washington observations made during 1848. Mean RA and declinations for 1850.0 of stars observed with the prime vertical transit instrument 1848. (0)
Observations of Psyche, Nemausa, Europa, Fides and of the Comet V. 1858, made with the Filar‐micrometer of the Washington Equatorial, and corrected for refraction (0)
From a Letter of Cmmander Maury (1860) (0)
Letters to William A. Graham, [solar eclipse] (1851) (0)
Observations of Asteroids, made with the Filar Micrometer of the Equatorial by J. Ferguson. (Corrected for refraction.) (0)
The physical geography of the sea meteorology / by M.F. Maury. (0)
National Observatory Washington. Observations of Melpomene, Amphitrite, Nemausa and Europa (0)
Washington observations made during 1849 and 1850. Mean north declinations for 1850.0 of stars observed with the prime vertical transit instrument 1849, 1850. (0)
Letters to the editor [asteroid discovery] (1857) (0)
Observations of Mars, Europa, Irene, Eunomia made at the National Observatory Washington with the Filar Micrometer of the Equatorial (0)
Letters to the editor [asteroid observations] (1850) (0)
Observations of Asteroids made with the Filar Micrometer of the Equatoreal of the Observatory Washington, by J. Ferguson (0)
Washington observations made during 1846. Mean places of stars observed with the meridian circle for 1850.0. (0)
Apparent Right Ascensions of the Moon's Limb and of Moon-Culminating Stars, observed with the Transit Instrument of the Observatory, Washington, (1860) (0)
Letters to William A. Graham, [supposed new planet] (1851) (0)
Observations of the Comet. V. 1858 (Donati), made with the filar‐micrometer of the Equatorial at the Washington Observatory by James Ferguson (0)
Apparent Right Ascension of the Moons Limb and of Moon‐Culminating stars, observed with the Transit Instrument of the Observatory Washington.Communicated by Director Maury. (0)
On the saltiness of the sea. (0)
The Coal of West Virginia (1876) (0)
Manual of geography : a complete treatise on mathematical, civil, and physical geography (0)
Washington observations made during 1848. Mean declinations for 1850.0 of stars observed with the mural circle 1848. (0)
Observations of the Sixtieth Asteroid (Titania) made with the Filar Micrometer of the Equatorial by J. Ferguson. Communicated by Comd. Maury (0)
Letter from Matthew Fontaine Maury to M.G.L. Charles, January 15, 1861. (0)
Observations of Comets, made at the National-Observatory Washington, with the filar-micrometer of the Equatorial (0)

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