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Maury

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Mau·ry  (môr), Matthew Fontaine 1806-1873.
American naval officer and oceanographer who charted the currents and winds of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans and wrote the pioneering Physical Geography of the Sea (1855).
Maury [ˈmɔːrɪ]
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(Biographies / Maury, Matthew Fontaine (1806-1873) M, US, SCIENCE: hydrographer, SCIENCE: oceanographer) Matthew Fontaine. 1806-73, US pioneer hydrographer and oceanographer


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Since the above was written, the statement is happily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th,
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
It has a pulse, arteries, spasms; and I agree with the learned Maury, who discovered in it a circulation as real as the circulation of blood in animals.
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