Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
by Jean Lee Latham
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After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."
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non-fiction, Newbery Medal, Seafaring life, Astronomers, Mathematicians, Juvenile non-fiction, Navigation, History, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Sailors, Juvenile literature, Nautical charts, Aids to navigation, Inventors, Biography, Children's fiction, Scientists, fiction, Massachusetts, history, fictionPlaces
Salem (Mass.)Times
18th century, 19th centuryShowing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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Newbery Medal, 1956.
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In this book, the largely unknown and frequently forgotten Nathaniel Bowditch comes to life in a brilliant portrait of his life. Readable for all ages, the book begins as the Bowditch family moves back to Salem, Massachusetts. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch follows Nathaniel Bowditch as he grows older and steadily more brilliant in mathematics and sciences, teaching himself by candle light and doing amazing things like learning Latin by himself. This book follows Bowditch's life through from a very young child to a fully grown and aging man. Although written like a novel and can read like fiction, the events of his life as represented in this book are accurate.
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