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Nathaniel Bowditch

American astronomer and mathematician who founded modern navigation (1773-1838)

Born	1773
Died	1838

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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

by Nathaniel Bowditch, Philip Henry Cooper, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, George Wood Logan, United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Equi, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ..., Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch, Nima, and 1 other First published in 1802 — 119 editions
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Useful tables from the American practical navigator

by Nathaniel Bowditch First published in 1868 — 12 editions
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Mécanique Céleste: 1St Book. on the General Laws of Equilibrium and Motion. 2D Book. on the Law of Universal Gravitation, and the Motions of the Centres of Gravity of the Heavenly Bodies

by Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace and Nathaniel Bowditch First published in 2009 — 9 editions

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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 ... the whole exemplified in a journal kept from Boston to Madeira, in which all the rules of navigation are introduced ... with an appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars ...

by Nathaniel Bowditch and Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch First published in 1811 — 9 editions

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Bowditch's Useful Tables

by Nathaniel Bowditch and Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch First published in 1866 — 6 editions
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Useful Tables from Bowditch's Practical Navigator

by Nathaniel Bowditch and United States Bureau of Navigation (Nav First published in 2017 — 5 editions

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Bowditch for yachtsmen: piloting : selected from American practical navigator

by Nathaniel Bowditch First published in 1976 — 3 editions
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Early American-Philippine trade: the journal of Nathaniel Bowditch in Manila, 1796

by Nathaniel Bowditch First published in 1962 — 3 editions

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Useful Tables

by Nathaniel Bowditch and Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch First published in 2018 — 2 editions

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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

by Nathaniel Bowditch and Thomas Kirby First published in 2023 — 2 editions

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The marine sextant: selected from American practical navigator

by Nathaniel Bowditch First published in 1976 — 2 editions
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Marine weather

by Nathaniel Bowditch First published in 1979 — 2 editions
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Directions for sailing into the harbours of Salem, Marblehead, Beverly, and Manchester

by Nathaniel Bowditch First published in 1806 — 2 editions

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Elements of the orbit of the late comet

by Nathaniel Bowditch First published in 1819 — 2 editions

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Mécanique Céleste; Volume 1

by Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace, Nathaniel Bowditch, and Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch First published in 2018 — 2 editions

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Methods of Computing the Orbit of a Comet or Planet: Appendix to the Third Volume of the Translation of the Méchanique Céleste

by Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace and Nathaniel Bowditch First published in 2018 — 2 editions

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Useful tables from the American practical navigator (Bowditch)

by Nathaniel Bowditch and United States Navy Dept Bureau of Nav First published in 1891 — 2 editions

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Useful tables from the American practical navigator

by Nathaniel Bowditch First published in 1882 — 2 editions

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Bowditch's useful tables.

by Nathaniel Bowditch First published in 1844 — 2 editions
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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 ... the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira ... with an appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars ...

by Nathaniel Bowditch and Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch First published in 1853 — 2 editions

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American astronomer and mathematician who founded modern navigation (1773-1838)

Born	1773
Died	1838

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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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N. Bowditch
Nathaniel, Bowditch
Nathaniel Bowditch L.L. D.

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