Matthew Fontaine Maury
The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology
Paperback
(Belknap Press March 15, 1963)
The eighth and last American edition republished here, The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology, was kept in print without revision for the longest time. The revision that produced it was, moreover, more extensive than any earlier one. Seven chapters are changed only slightly from the "entirely new edition, with addenda" of 1859, which contained 389 pages as compared to 474 in the eighth edition. One chapter "The Submarine Telegraph of the Atlantic" is omitted. Three chapters are new, Chapter 4 combines two short chapters in the preceding edition. Chapters 15 and 16 are a result of the division of another long chapter. The remaining chapters were extensively rewritten and new material was added to them. Most of the figures are new. No edition of this book is systematically organized. It began as a collection of papers. Many popularly held conceptions of the motions of the atmosphere and the sea and ideas about weather and climate are presented. These notions and others, few of which were original with Maury but most of which were obsolete or gravely questioned in his day, have lived on in the underworld of science: in popular literature and school textbooks.
- Series
- John Harvard library
- Pages
- 433
- Weight
- 25.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 9.2 x 6.1 in.
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