The Wikipedia biography of Matthew Fontaine Maury, consulted for his 1855 book The Physical Geography of the Sea, the first systematic study of ocean currents. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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his book, The Physical Geography of the Sea (1855), was the first comprehensive work on oceanography to be published.
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