Author: Henry I. Bowditch
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336890910X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Nat the Navigator. A Life of Nathaniel Bowditch. For Young Persons
Author: Henry I. Bowditch
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336890910X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336890910X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Nat the Navigato; A Life of Nathaniel Bowditch, For Young Persons
Author: Henry Ingersoll Bowditch
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368376551
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368376551
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Author: Jean Lee Latham
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618250745
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618250745
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
American Practical Navigator
Author: Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Publisher:
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
Author: Tamara Plakins Thornton
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming American life more broadly. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch operated and represented some of New England's most powerful institutions—from financial corporations to Harvard College—as clockwork mechanisms. By examining Bowditch's pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thornton's biography sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American science, and social elites in the early republic. Fleshing out the multiple careers of Nathaniel Bowditch, this book is at once a lively biography, a window into the birth of bureaucracy, and a portrait of patrician life, giving us a broader, more-nuanced understanding of how powerful capitalists operated during this era and how the emerging quantitative sciences shaped the modern experience.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming American life more broadly. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch operated and represented some of New England's most powerful institutions—from financial corporations to Harvard College—as clockwork mechanisms. By examining Bowditch's pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thornton's biography sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American science, and social elites in the early republic. Fleshing out the multiple careers of Nathaniel Bowditch, this book is at once a lively biography, a window into the birth of bureaucracy, and a portrait of patrician life, giving us a broader, more-nuanced understanding of how powerful capitalists operated during this era and how the emerging quantitative sciences shaped the modern experience.
Bulletin of the Brooklyn Public Library
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Co-operative Bulletin
Co-operative Bulletin
Author: Brooklyn Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Co-operative Bulletin
Author: Pratt Institute. Free Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Our Boys and Girls
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's periodicals, American
Languages : en
Pages : 961
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's periodicals, American
Languages : en
Pages : 961
Book Description