[PDF.14sf] Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life

Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life

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 | #727616 in Books |  2016-04-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.17 x6.25 x9.55l,.0 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| no one has ever thought that this might be a useful question--this is a must read|By Customer|Alovely read, meticulously researched and important. For any one interested in how ideas and mathematics of navigation and business might fit together--ok, no one has ever thought that this might be a useful question--this is a must read. An intellectual biography with a difference.| |An excellent survey of Bodwitch's life, including his family background, childhood, marriage, and children, as well as the opportunities and choices that defined his career.--Journal of Interdisciplinary History||

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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 unerrin...

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