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Nathaniel Bowditch
American astronomer and mathematician who founded modern navigation (1773-1838)
| Born | 1773 |
| Died | 1838 |
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👁 Cover of: The new American practical navigator: being an epitome of navigation; containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical almanac in determining the latitude, and the longitude by lunar observations, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea : illustrated by proper rules and examples : the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all the rules of navigation are introduced : also, the demonstration of the usual rules of trigonometry; problems in mensuration, surveying, and gauging; dictionary of sea terms; and the manner of performing the most useful evolutions at sea : with an appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars; rules for finding the longitude of a place by observations of eclipses, occultations, and transits of the moon's limb over the meridian; also a new method for finding the latitude by two altitudes
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👁 Cover of: Mécanique Céleste
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👁 Cover of: Bowditch's Useful Tables
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👁 Cover of: Useful Tables from Bowditch's Practical Navigator
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👁 Cover of: Bowditch's useful tables.
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👁 Cover of: Elements of the orbit of the late comet
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👁 Cover of: ...Useful tables from the American practical navigator.
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👁 Cover of: Useful tables from the American practical navigator (Bowditch)
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👁 Cover of: The marine sextant: selected from American practical navigator
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👁 Cover of: Mécanique Céleste; Volume 1
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👁 Cover of: Methods of Computing the Orbit of a Comet or Planet: Appendix to the Third Volume of the Translation of the Méchanique Céleste
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👁 Cover of: Improved Practical Navigator : Containing All Necessary Instructions for Determining the Latitude by Various Methods, and for Ascertaining the Longitude by Lunar Observations: in a Complete Epitome of Navigation ... to Which Is Added a Number Of
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American astronomer and mathematician who founded modern navigation (1773-1838)
| Born | 1773 |
| Died | 1838 |
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Navigation, Nautical astronomy, Tables, Comets, Astronomy, Commerce, Marine meteorology, Oceanography, Weather, Boats and boating, Bowditch, nathaniel, 1773-1838, Description and travel, Handbooks, manuals, History, Language, Literature, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Maritime Meteorology, Meteorology, Maritime, Navigation, 1837, Observations, Orbits, Pilot guides, Pilots and pilotage, Reference booksMy Reading Lists:
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- OLID: OL819936A
- ISNI: 0000000106535872
- Library of Congress Names: n79026975
- VIAF: 29701293
- Wikidata: Q1356911
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q1356911
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Alternative names
- N. Bowditch
- Nathaniel, Bowditch
- Nathaniel Bowditch L.L. D.