Rockwell Kent, frontispiece illustration to 1930 edition of MobyDick

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Rockwell Kent, frontispiece illustration to 1930
edition of Moby-Dick
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Beginnings of American Marine Science

• Lecture 25November 28, 2007

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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), early student of
the Gulf Stream
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Benjamin Franklin and Henry Folger, Map of the
Gulf Stream (1768),
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Joycde Chaplin, Harvard historian of science and
author of The First American Scientist Benjamin
Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006)
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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), Salem
mathematician author of New American Practical
Navigator (1802-)
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Ferdinand Hassler (1770-1843), Swiss-borne 1st
director of the US Coastal Survey (1807-43)
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Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-67), 2nd director
of US Coastal Survey (1843-67)
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Benjamin Peirce (1809-80), Harvard mathematician,
astronomer 3rd director of US Coastal Survey
(1867-74)
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Charles Wilkes (1798-1877), naval officer head
of US Exploring Expedition (1838-42)
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USS Vincennes, flag ship of US Exploring
Expedition (1838-42), in Antarctica (1840)
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Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873), head of US
Naval Observatory (1842-1863) author of The
Physical Geography of the Sea (1855)
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Matthew F. Maury, Whale Chart (1849), based on
ships logs of whale sightings
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Joseph Henry (1797-1878), Princeton physicist
1st director of Smithsonian Institution
(1846-1878)
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George Perkins Marsh (1801-82), diplomat author
of Man and Nature The Earth as Modified by Human
Action (1864)
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Rachel Carson (1907-64), marine biologist
nature writer, author of The Sea Around Us (1951)
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Maurice Ewing (1906-74), Columbia geophysicist
and founding director of Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory (1947)
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Roger R. T. Revelle (1909-91), oceanographer
student of impact of oceans on climate
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Al Gore (1948-), presidential candidate star of
An Inconvenient Truth (2006), on the oceans and
climate change
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Captain James Cook (1728-79), British naval
officer and explorer of Pacific Ocean
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Charles Darwin (1809-82), scientific observer of
sea fossils and marine life on HMS Beagle
(1831-36)
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Edward Forbes (1815-54), Scottish naturalist and
promoter of the azoic theory, denying
existence of life below 300 fathoms