c. 1847 CE
Maury turns logbooks into wind and current charts
Oceans, navigation & cartography · Nautical cartography · Oceanography
Matthew Fontaine Maury systematized observations from many logbooks to produce wind-and-current charts and sailing directions. The method shortened routes and turned data contributed by many mariners into operational knowledge, although institutional authorship should not hide that collective work.
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- 2026-09-23
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