Matthew Fontaine Maury Scientist Of The Sea
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Matthew Fontaine Maury Scientist Of The Sea
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Author : Frances Leigh Williams
language : en
Publisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 1963
Matthew Fontaine Maury Scientist Of The Sea written by Frances Leigh Williams and has been published by New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Oceanographers categories.
Tracks In The Sea
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Author : Chester G. Hearn
language : en
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Release Date : 2003-09-01
Tracks In The Sea written by Chester G. Hearn and has been published by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Remarkable Story of a Seafaring Scientist "Tracks in the Sea" captures a rich yet little-known chapter in the history of seafaring--the mapping of the oceans by Matthew Fontaine Maury, the father of modern navigation and ocean science. Voyages in the 1800s were risky endeavors. Navigation was uncertain and knowledge of prevailing winds and current had advanced little since Columbus. Hundreds of ships were lost each year; the cost in property and lives was enormous. Maury changed all that. In a brilliant eighteen-year effort between 1842 and 1861--driving himself and his staff with relentless curiosity, ambition, adventurousness, and altruism--he transformed the oceans from trackless hazards into a network of highways marked by dependable winds and currents and showed shipmasters how to shave weeks and even months from voyages. His career coincided with the ascendance of America as a maritime power and with the culmination of the Great Age of Sail. In a world interconnected by maritime commerce, Maury's work was critically important not just to America but to all nations. Now "Tracks in the Sea" resurrects the life and work of this unique and fascinating man. In tracing Maury's intellectual odyssey and the dramatic conflicts of his career, Chester Hearn shows us a pivotal era in seafaring and in the history of a raw young nation.
Matthew Fontaine Maury
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Author : Howard Cohen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Matthew Fontaine Maury written by Howard Cohen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Oceanographers categories.
The Physical Geography Of The Sea
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Author : Matthew Fontaine Maury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1858
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A Life Of Matthew Fontaine Maury
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Author : Diana Fontaine Corbin
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2013-01-03
A Life Of Matthew Fontaine Maury written by Diana Fontaine Corbin and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Matthew Fontaine Maury has been nicknamed the "pathfinder of the seas" and the "father of modern oceanography". This is a detailed biography of the man who created a science. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Matthew Fontaine Maury The Pathfinder Of The Seas
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Author : Charles Lee Lewis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Matthew Fontaine Maury The Pathfinder Of The Seas written by Charles Lee Lewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Oceanographers categories.
Matthew Fontaine Maury Father Of Oceanography
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Author : John Grady
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-01-26
Matthew Fontaine Maury Father Of Oceanography written by John Grady and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-26 with History categories.
In becoming "a useful man" on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontaine Maury focused on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested Great Britain's admiralty in securing the fastest, safest routes to India and Australia. He helped bind the Old and New worlds with the laying of the transatlantic cable, forcefully advocated Southern rights in a troubled union, and preached Manifest Destiny from the Arctic to Cape Horn. And he revolutionized warfare in perfecting electronically detonated mines. Maury's eagerness to go to the public on the questions of the day riled powerful men in business and politics, and the U.S., Confederate and Royal navies. He more than once ran afoul of Jefferson Davis and Stephen R. Mallory, secretary of the Confederate States Navy. But through the political, social and scientific struggles of his time, Maury had his share of powerful allies, like President John Tyler.
The Physical Geography Of The Sea
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Author : Matthew Fontaine Maury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1856
The Physical Geography Of The Sea written by Matthew Fontaine Maury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1856 with Marine meteorology categories.
Fathoming The Ocean
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Author : Helen M. Rozwadowski
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2008-03-31
Fathoming The Ocean written by Helen M. Rozwadowski and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-31 with Science categories.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, as scientists explored the frontiers of polar regions and the atmosphere, the ocean remained silent and inaccessible. The history of how this changed—of how the depths became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession, an engineering challenge and a political attraction—is the story that unfolds in Fathoming the Ocean. In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities—in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The ocean emerged as important new territory, and scientific interests intersected with those of merchant-industrialists and politicians. Rozwadowski documents the popular crazes that coincided with these interests—from children's sailor suits to the home aquarium and the surge in ocean travel. She describes how, beginning in the 1860s, oceanography moved from yachts onto the decks of oceangoing vessels, and landlubber naturalists found themselves navigating the routines of a working ship's physical and social structures. Fathoming the Ocean offers a rare and engaging look into our fascination with the deep sea and into the origins of oceanography—origins still visible in a science that focuses the efforts of physicists, chemists, geologists, biologists, and engineers on the common enterprise of understanding a vast, three-dimensional, alien space.
Science Technology And New Challenges To Ocean Law
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Author : Harry N. Scheiber
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-07-24
Science Technology And New Challenges To Ocean Law written by Harry N. Scheiber and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-24 with Law categories.
Sixteen authoritative yet eminently readable chapters offer analyses of major issues in the interfaces of science, technology, and law for the oceans. This volume fills an important gap both in the existing literature on law of the sea and in the more comprehensive field of ocean resource-use studies.