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	Matthew Fontaine Maury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maury read and studied them, primarily interested at first in charting the migration of whales which was unknown to whalers at the time since they went to sea sometimes for years not knowing that whales migrate and their paths could be charted.
		Maury's work on ocean currents led him to advocate his theory of the Northwest Passage, as well as the hypothesis that an area in the ocean near the North Pole is occasionally free of ice.
		A monument to Maury, by sculptor Frederick William Sievers, was unveiled in Richmond on November 11, 1929.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_F._Maury (1749 words)

	Matthew Fontaine Maury Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Matthew Fontaine Maury was born on January 14, 1806 near Fredericksburg, Virginia.
		In 1842, Maury was appointed superintendant of the Depot of Charts and Instruments of the Navy Department in Washington.
		During the Civil War, Maury was successful in acquiring war vessels for the Confederacy and in the progress he made in harbor defense, experimenting with electrical mines.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~UG97/monument/maurybio.html (386 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY
		In 1842 Maury was named superintendent of the Navy Depot of Charts and Instruments, later known as the Naval Observatory.
		Maury returned to the United States and became a professor of physics at Virginia Military Institute, where he continued to write books on the sea and geography.
		Maury died on February 1, 1873, in Lexington, Virginia, and is buried in Richmond, Virginia.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=M028 (408 words)

	Tennessee history, preservation and educational artifacts
		Maury had sailed in most of the places he was reading about and soon he began to see a pattern among ships that were wrecked and supposedly drifted aimlessly on the ocean’s surface.
		Maury himself had once been on a ship that was unnavigable in the Atlantic and recorded its movements during that time.
		Matthew Maury’s casket was escorted by the Cadets along the North River to Richmond.
	www.vic.com /tnchron/class/pathfinder.htm (1993 words)

	January 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Matthew Fontaine Maury idolized his older brother John Minor Maury who became a naval midshipman at 13, sailed to China, sailed on the frigate Essex with Porter and Farregut, fought the British on Lake Champlain and pirates in the West Indies.
		Maury was relieved from his duties developing torpedos and sent to Europe where officially it was felt that his international fame would benefit the Confederacy with regard to ship procurement, Foreign cooperation, as well as European mine development.
		Maury died February 1, 1873 and his remains were interred in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. A monument to Matthew Fontaine Maury was erected November 11, 1929.
	www.bitsofblueandgray.com /january2003.htm (3174 words)

	Matthew Fontaine Maury: The Sailor Who Launched Oceanography
		Matthew Fontaine Maury's Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology published in 1855 (now one hundred fifty years ago) was the first textbook in the modern science of oceanography and will remain a landmark publication in the history of science.
		Matthew Maury, the son of a small planter, was born on January 14, 1806, near Fredericksburg, Virginia.
		Maury's poetic style of writing has made his book charming; it is quite a contrast to a technical language we expect to read in scientific books.
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	Later days of Lieutenant Matthew Fontaine Maury
		Maury wanted to rid the South of slavery, but the method he proposed was to ship all the slaves off to the Amazon and sell them all to the highest bidder to open the lands in that harsh region where they would be subject to unknown cruelties and evils.
		Maury was a son of the South and when Virginia seceded from the Union in April 1861, Maury resigned his position at the National Observatory and moved with his family to Fredricksburg, Virginia.
		Maury was quick to take advantage of a blanket amnesty that was offered by President Johnson in 1867 and returned to the Unites States soon after receiving his award at Cambridge, where he accepted the professorship of Meteorology at the Virginia Military Institute.
	www.eraoftheclipperships.com /page70.html (1677 words)

	BookRags: Matthew Fontaine Maury Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Matthew Fontaine Maury was born near Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1806, and entered the Navy at age eighteen.
		Maury's studies were facilitated by giving ship captains specially prepared logbooks so that data might be accurately obtained for his work.
		In 1861 Maury resigned from the United States Navy to join the Confederacy, but after the war he returned to the field of science, ending his career as a professor of meteorology at the Virginia Military Institute.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-matthew-fontaine-maury-wsd/index.html (378 words)

	Matthew Fontaine Maury
		Maury had deduced by experience and observations that the prevailing winds south of Cape Horn revolved clockwise circling around a low-pressure center and that periodically the flow reversed at rare intervals, where a sailing ship could catch favorable easterly winds around the Horn.
		Maury correctly deduced that under such conditions it was easier to sail farther to the south to find the easterly winds that would take them around the Horn.
		Maury was laid up in Somerset, Ohio, until early January 1840, when he finally left with his leg in a cast by sleigh to the nearest station for the journey to New York by train.
	www.eraoftheclipperships.com /page14web.html (3568 words)

	Birth and Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Maury may have had enemies in high places but there were many in the general population who had always warmed to him and came to his support.
		In Memoriam, Matthew Fontaine Maury, LL.D. Proceedings of the Academic Board of the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., on the occasion of the Death of Commodore M.F. Maury, LL.D., Professor of Physics, in the Virginia Military Institute, pp.21-22.
		Matthew Fontaine Maury address at the laying of the corner-stone of the University of the South, on Swanee Mountain in East Tennessee.
	www.answersingenesis.org /docs/3387.asp (2348 words)

	Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury
		One January morning in 1806, Matthew Fontaine Maury was born into a pioneer family in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
		It was at the age of 19 that Maury's dream for a life at sea became a reality.
		He said, "Matthew Maury furnished the brains, England the money, and I did the work!" It was in England that Maury made one of his greatest discoveries.
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	BookRags: Matthew Fontaine Maury Summary
		On Jan. 14, 1806, Matthew Fontaine Maury was born near Fredericksburg, Va. When he was 5, his family emigrated to a farm near the frontier village of Franklin, Tenn., where he attended country schools and then entered Harpeth Academy.
		Despite Maury's pioneering efforts in oceanography, his de-emphasis of astronomy and preference for what he conceived as more practical work brought him into continuing conflict with leaders of American science, so much so that they met with genuine relief his defection to the Confederacy at the outbreak of the Civil War.
		After the collapse of the Confederacy, Maury went to Mexico to promote a scheme for the colonization of former Confederates, lived in England for a while, and finally returned to Virginia, where he spent the last 4 years of his life as a professor of meteorology in the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-matthew-fontaine-maury (526 words)

	MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY UNITED STATES NAVY- BIOGRAPHY
		Maury’s letter on the harmony between science and revealed religion — The work of Colonel Smith of the Virginia Military Institute — Letters to his daughters after marriage — Correspondence during his lecturing tour, and extracts — Letters to Bishop Otey — Maury’s address on the study of physical geography.
		— Maury organizes a society in England to promote cessation of hostilities — Petition to the United States for peace — Letter from chronometer-maker offering Maury a home — Letters about his son at school in England, and on news from home — Congratulations to the Archduke Maximilian on going to Mexico.
		Corbin — Maury’s love for his grandchild — He joins the Church and is confirmed with his children — Made LL.D. at Cambridge — Accepts appointment as Professor at the Virginia Military Institute — Returns to America 1868 — Occupations at Richmond.
	www.cstone.net /~wmm/MAURY/index.html (503 words)

	"Matthew Maury and the Paths of the Sea"
		Matthew Maury and the Paths of the Sea
		My Comments: Matthew Maury was born in 1806 and his active career must have started not before at least 1826.
		Whatever the truth about the little story, it is a fact that Maury was by no means the first to realize the importance of ocean currents, nor did he discover them.
	tccsa.tc /articles/maury.html (620 words)

	Crosswalk.com
		Matthew Fontaine Maury was born on January 14, 1806 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
		Young Matthew attended the elementary schools in his area but was later enrolled in the Harpeth Academy where he excelled in his studies.
		Matthew Maury was developing the scientific discipline as he went.
	www.crosswalk.com /family/home_school/1276483.html?view=print (1070 words)

	Matthew Maury’s search for the secret of the seas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Maury entered the US Navy in 1825, but an accident in 1839 partially disabled him, so he left active sea duty.
		From the location and date on which the bottles were found, Maury was able to develop his charts of the ocean currents—the ‘paths’ of the seas—which greatly aided the science of marine navigation.
		Maury subsequently prepared charts of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean between the United States and Europe, which showed the practicability of laying undersea cables.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v11/i3/maury.asp (663 words)

	Matthew Fontaine Maury "Pathfinder Of Sea" Psalms 8
		Maury's Monument: At "Goshen Pass" a granite shaft to Maury, was erected in 1923 by the State of Virginia with this inscription: "Matthew Fontaine Maury Pathfinder Of The Seas The Genius Who First Snatched From The Ocean And Atmosphere The Secret Of Their Laws.
		The vertical axis established by Maury in the armchair and the globe hovering above is balanced by the horizontal axis of Maury's elbows splayed outward on the armrests of the chair.
		Maury's address at the laying of the corner-stone of the University of the South, on the Sewanee Mountains in East Tennessee, was delivered at the request of Bishop Otey on Nov. 30th, 1860.
	www.bible.ca /tracks/matthew-fontaine-maury-pathfinder-of-sea-ps8.htm (7704 words)

	Account of Lt. Matthew Fontaine Maury by one of his living descendants
		Matthew Fontaine Maury had a son named John, called "Lt. Maury", who was in the Confederate army and killed in action in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
		The man was internationally famous to such an extent that he was the first man to unite nations, as in the first League of nations in 1853 for peacetime reasons of charting the seas and creating an international weather bureau.
		Matthew Fontaine Maury was in England buying seeds from a special tree that grows in India from the British Empire when he learned of the death of Maximilian.
	www.duedall.fit.edu /ocn1010eng/maurdescendant.htm (1620 words)

	Biography: Matthew Fountaine Maury (1806-1873)
		U.S. Naval officer and oceanographer who was the founder of the U.S. Naval Observatory; Confederate Head of Coast, harbour and river defences; Inventor of a torpedo; pioneer of wind and current charts.
		The American Matthew F. Maury, who was born in 1806, joined the U.S. Navy in 1825 where he soon developed an interest for hydrography.
		Maury was appointed superintendent of the U.S. Navy's Hydrographical Office in Washington after having injured a leg in 1839 and two years later of the Naval Obeservatory.
	www.bruzelius.info /nautica/Biography/US/Maury,_MF.html (429 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Maury, Matthew Fontaine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		MAURY, MATTHEW FONTAINE [Maury, Matthew Fontaine], 1806-73, American hydrographer and naval officer, b.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Maury, Matthew Fontaine" at HighBeam.
		Maury the scientist of safer seas.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Maury-M1a.asp (338 words)

	Matthew Fontaine Maury Papers. A Collection in the VMI Archives. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In addition to personal/domestic matters, topics include Maury's lecture series, his career at the National Observatory in Washington, D.C., Confederate service in Richmond, activities in England, colonization efforts in Mexico, and his professorship at the Virginia Military Institute.
		As this example (Oct 22, 1860) from the collection indicates, Maury's handwriting is often difficult to decipher.
		The letters contain many references to Maury's children and other family members; many of the children were given one or more nicknames.
	www.vmi.edu /archives/manuscripts/maury/mfmpaprs.html (148 words)

	To the Ends of the Earth and Beyond: Matthew F. Maury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		When a leg injury left him unfit for sea duty, Maury devoted his time to the study of navigation, meteorology, winds, and currents.
		Maury's uniform system of recording oceanographic data was adopted by navies and merchant marines around the world and was used to develop charts for all the major trade routes.
		With the outbreak of the Civil War, Maury, a Virginian, resigned his commission as a U.S. Navy commander and joined the Confederacy.
	www.history.navy.mil /branches/teach/ends/maury.htm (317 words)

	Matthew Fontaine Maury by Edward Virginius Valentine
		Matthew Maury was one of the leading nautical thinkers of his day.
		With the start of hostilities in the spring of 1861, Maury resigned his post as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory and offered his services to the Confederate government.
		Maury sat for the original plaster version of his portrait by the Richmond sculptor Edward Valentine over a period of four days.
	www.civilwar.si.edu /navies_maury.html (169 words)

	Research Vessel Matthew F. Maury (formally PCF-2)
		She was renamed the R/V Matthew F. Maury, in honor of the legendary "pathfinder of the seas." Maury is a proud name in both the Chesapeake Bay and the Old Dominion.
		Today, the vessel may sport a new coat of paint but underneath, it's still "Haze Gray." And while her mission has shifted from a wartime training platform to that of a Research Vessel, she continues to create a wake in coastal and inland waters.
		This is the R/V Matthew F. Maury from the front as she is getting ready to go back in the water at Cobb's Marina in Norfolk, Virginia.
	www.tcc.edu /academics/divisions/ms/geoscience/projects/maury.htm (617 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Matthew Fontaine Maury In Profile Part 2
		Matthew Maury grew up with the Bible serving as his guide.
		Through his reading the Bible he was fascinated by the number of times references were made to "paths of the seas" further proving to him that God was the architect.
		Certainly the Bible is not a text on oceanography but to Maury it provided numerous clues about God's intelligent design that he could use to guide his studies.
	www.crosswalk.com /family/home_school/1276488.html (964 words)

	Matthew Fontaine Maury Papers (Library of Congress) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Copyright Status: The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Matthew Fontaine Maury is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
		The papers pertain chiefly to Maury's naval career, his scientific activities and interests, and his service to the Confederacy in the Civil War.
		Of particular interest are the letters Maury received during the periods when he was special Confederate agent to Great Britain in London and an immigration official for Southern expatriates in Mexico.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/maury.html (908 words)

	CARTE DE VISITE - Matthew Fontaine Maury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		As a midshipman in the United States Navy, Mathew Fontaine Maury sailed to Europe, South America, and around the globe, he also served as an astronomer on an expedition to the South Seas.
		A loyal Virginian, Maury became a commander in the Confederate navy in 1861, and the following year he went to England, where he used his international reputation to secure support for the Confederacy.
		Brady photographed Maury in Washington around 1860, when he was one of the nation's most distinguished scientists.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/brady/gallery/97gal.html (156 words)

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