Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography (ePub)
A Biography, 1806-1873
(Sprache: Englisch)
In becoming "a useful man" on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontaine Maury focused light 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...
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In becoming "a useful man" on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontaine Maury focused light 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. Late in life, he revolutionized warfare in perfecting electronically detonated mines. Maury's eagerness to go to the public in person and in print on the questions of the day riled powerful men in business and politics, and the U.S., Confederate and Royal navies. They dismissed him as the "Man on the Hill." Over his career, Maury more than once ran afoul of Jefferson Davis, and Stephen R. Mallory, secretary of the Confederate States Navy. He argued against eminent members of the nation's emerging scientific community in a decades-long debate over science for its own sake versus science for the people's sake. Through the political, social and scientific struggles of his time, however, Maury had his share of powerful allies, like President John Tyler; but by the early 1870s they, too, were in eclipse or in the grave.
Autoren-Porträt von John Grady
John Grady served as managing editor of Navy Times and has been published in Naval History, the New York Times' Disunion series, the Times' collection of essays on the Civil War and the Civil War Monitor's Front Line. He writes on defense and national security issues for the Naval Institute, Government Executive, Breaking Defense, and ScoutComms Inc., and is a contributor to the Naval History and Heritage Command's Civil War blog. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.
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- Autor: John Grady
- 2015, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1476618089
- ISBN-13: 9781476618081
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.01.2015
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