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Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers

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Author : Tamara Plakins Thornton
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469626942
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers written by Tamara Plakins Thornton and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thornton's biography sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American science, and social elites in the early republic. Fleshing out the multiple careers of Nathaniel Bowditch, this book is at once a lively biography, a window into the birth of bureaucracy, and a portrait of patrician life, giving us a broader, more-nuanced understanding of how powerful capitalists operated during this era and how the emerging quantitative sciences shaped the modern experience.

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

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Author : Jean Lee Latham
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618250745
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Carry On, Mr. Bowditch written by Jean Lee Latham and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.

American Practical Navigator

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Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book American Practical Navigator written by Nathaniel Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Celestial Mechanics

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Author : Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Celestial Mechanics written by Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Practical Navigator

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Author : John Hamilton Moore
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333246983
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book The New Practical Navigator written by John Hamilton Moore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Practical Navigator: Being a Complete Epitome of Navigation; To Which Are Added, All the Tables Requisite for Determining the Latitude and Longitude at Sea To the Table XVI. For turning Degrees and Minutes into Time, and the contrary, two columns are added on the right fide, for turning Minutes and Seconds (of an hour) into Longitude, and the reverfe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

2017 American Practical Navigator 'bowditch': Volume 1 & 2

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Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937196820
Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book 2017 American Practical Navigator 'bowditch': Volume 1 & 2 written by Nathaniel Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, was billed as the "epitome of navigation" by its original author, Nathaniel Bowditch. The text has evolved with the advances in navigation practices since that first issue and continues to serve as a valuable reference for marine navigation in the modern day. The publication describes in detail the principles and factors of navigation, including piloting, electronic navigation, celestial navigation, mathematics, safety, oceanography and meterology. It also contains various tables used in typical navigational calculations and solutions, including the formulas used to derive the tabular data. - NGA

American Practical Navigator Volume 2 1981 Edition

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Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher : Paradise Cay Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781937196264
Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book American Practical Navigator Volume 2 1981 Edition written by Nathaniel Bowditch and published by Paradise Cay Publications. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...is the same as the latitude of the point on the line A', R/J 25 19'.4 S. B115 31.5 W. We now have two Sumner linee, A'and B', under Case I, whose common latitude is 25 19MS., and whose longitudes on the common parallel are 114 61K.7 and 115 31'.5. Hence, the difference of longitude on the common parallel is 115 31'.5 W. 114 59'.7 W. CHAPTER XVI. THE PEAOTIOE 01 NAVIGATION AT SEA. 381. Having set forth in previous chapters the methods of working dead reckoning and of solving problems to find the latitude, longitude, chronometer correction, and azimuth from astronomical observations, it will be the aim of the present chapter to describe the conditions which govern the choice and employment of the various problems, together with certain considerations by which the navigator may be guided in his practical work at sea. 382. Departure And Dead Reckoning.--On beginning a voyage, a good departure must, be taken while landmarks are still in view and favorably located for the purpose; this becomes the origin of the dead reckoning, which, with frequent new departures from positions by observation, is kept up to the completion of the voyage, thus enabling the mariner to know, with a fair degree of accuracy, the position of his vessel at any instant. At the moment of taking the departure, the reading of the patent log (which should have been put over at least long enough previously to be regularly running) must be recorded, and thereafter at the time of taking each sight and at every other time when a position is required for any purpose, the log reading must also be noted. It is likewise well to read the log each hour; for general information as to the speed of the vessel as well as to observe that it is in proper running order and that the rotator has not been fouled ...

Mayflower

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Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101218835
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Mayflower written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--The New York Times Book Review Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year With a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower. How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five year epic that began in peril and ended in war. New England erupted into a bloody conflict that nearly wiped out the English colonists and natives alike. These events shaped the existing communites and the country that would grow from them.

A History of the Massachusetts General Hospital

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Author : Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Massachusetts General Hospital written by Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

2019 American Practical Navigator Bowditch Vol 1 & 2 Combined Edition

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Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher : Paradise Cay Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781951116057
Total Pages : 1230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book 2019 American Practical Navigator Bowditch Vol 1 & 2 Combined Edition written by Nathaniel Bowditch and published by Paradise Cay Publications. This book was released on 2020-02-02 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2019 edition of The American Practical Navigator (Bowditch), Pub No. 9, exists to codify the latest body of marine navigation knowledge and practical application. Its publication success is a result of the dedicated efforts of many hands and voices from academia, science and seafaring experts. This edition has advanced from the judiciously shaped recommendations-some comprehensive, some minute, all indispensable-of a multitude of maritime and science professionals. At the same time, it was equally essential that those recommendations be compared, vetted, and applied in a consistent manner and with a clear vision, a challenging task performed in exemplary fashion by this edition's principal editor, Dr. Gerard J. Clifford, Jr.

Redskin and Cowboy

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Author : George Alfred Henty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redskin and Cowboy written by George Alfred Henty and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Republic of Numbers

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Author : David Lindsay Roberts
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421433087
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Republic of Numbers written by David Lindsay Roberts and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republic of Numbers will appeal to anyone who is interested in learning how mathematics has intertwined with American history.

Gracefully Insane

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Author : Alex Beam
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786750367
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Gracefully Insane written by Alex Beam and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include Olmsted himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles, as well as (more secretly) other notables from among the rich and famous. In its "golden age," McLean provided as genteel an environment for the treatment of mental illness as one could imagine. But the golden age is over, and a downsized, downscale McLean-despite its affiliation with Harvard University-is struggling to stay afloat. Gracefully Insane, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, is a fascinating and emotional biography of McLean Hospital from its founding in 1817 through today. It is filled with stories about patients and doctors: the Ralph Waldo Emerson prot'g' whose brilliance disappeared along with his madness; Anne Sexton's poetry seminar, and many more. The story of McLean is also the story of the hopes and failures of psychology and psychotherapy; of the evolution of attitudes about mental illness, of approaches to treatment, and of the economic pressures that are making McLean-and other institutions like it-relics of a bygone age. This is a compelling and often oddly poignant reading for fans of books like Plath's The Bell Jar and Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted (both inspired by their author's stays at McLean) and for anyone interested in the history of medicine or psychotherapy, or the social history of New England.

Sea of Glory

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Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142004838
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Sea of Glory written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has—until now—been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize

Runaway

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Author : Anthony Chaney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469631741
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Runaway written by Anthony Chaney and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was among the group of mathematicians, engineers, and social scientists who laid the theoretical foundations of the information age. In Palo Alto in 1956, he introduced the double-bind theory of schizophrenia. By the sixties, he was in Hawaii studying dolphin communication. Bateson's discipline hopping made established experts wary, but he found an audience open to his ideas in a generation of rebellious youth. To a gathering of counterculturalists and revolutionaries in 1967 London, Bateson was the first to warn of a "greenhouse effect" that could lead to runaway climate change. Blending intellectual biography with an ambitious reappraisal of the 1960s, Anthony Chaney uses Bateson's life and work to explore the idea that a postmodern ecological consciousness is the true legacy of the decade. Surrounded by voices calling for liberation of all kinds, Bateson spoke of limitation and dependence. But he also offered an affirming new picture of human beings and their place in the world—as ecologies knit together in a fabric of meaning that, said Bateson, "we might as well call Mind."

Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch

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Author : Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch

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Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 142902111X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch written by Nathaniel Bowditch and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: