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Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
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 path...
Useful Tables from Bowditch's Practical Navigator
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
The Boston Directory
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Geomagnetic and Bathymetric Profiles Across the North Atlantic Ocean
Total magnetic intensity and bathymetric data collected on simultaneous North Atlantic crossings. Three ships, USNS BOWDITCH, USNS DUTTON, and USNS MICHELSON participated in the survey operations are presented. These ships were with nuclear resonance magnetometers and precision depth recorders. A combined total of approximately 17,200 miles of track was surveyed. The data presentation is in profile form and is divided into two parts. Part I presents the data from the westbound crossing between the Norwegian Sea and New York, and Part II presents the data from the eastbound crossing. (Author).
