Nathaniel Bowditch

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A couple days ago a friend told me about the book Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, a fictional account of the life of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838). I’ve been listening to the book on Audible, and apparently it’s only lightly fictionalized. Bowditch was a self-educated mathematician and astronomer, best known for his book The American Practical Navigator, […] The post Nathaniel Bowditch first appeared on John D. Cook.