This history would seem to provide a noteworthy lesson for those seeking immortality via eponymy!
He chose mariner - not, as usually conjectured, after Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, although the eponymy is apt - but in honor of his newborn daughter, Marin.
Definition of eponymy in US English:
eponymy
nounəˈpänəmē
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This history would seem to provide a noteworthy lesson for those seeking immortality via eponymy!
He chose mariner - not, as usually conjectured, after Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, although the eponymy is apt - but in honor of his newborn daughter, Marin.