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

by Tamara Plakins Thornton and THORNTON

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1469663937

ISBN13:9781469663937

Release Date:February 2021

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:416 Pages

Weight:1.41 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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