Matthew Fontaine Maury - Scientist of the Sea by Frances Leigh Williams
For over a century the United States government has published navigational charts. At the top they bear the notation Founded upon the researches made in the early part of the nineteenth century by Matthew Fontaine Maury, while serving as a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy. By this recognition, paid no other naval officer, the government reminds mariners throughout the world of their continuing debt to the man who founded oceanography, the science of the sea.
This hardcover book is in good condition with minor imperfections to the dust jacket such as discoloration. Pages in good condition with owner’s stamps.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication Date: 1963