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BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL (1773-1838) , American mathe- matician, was born at Salem, Massachusetts. He was bred to his father's business as a cooper, and afterwards apprenticed to a ship-chandler. His taste for mathematics early developed itself; and he acquired Latin that he might study Newton's Principia. As clerk (1795) and then as supercargo (1796, 1798, 1799) he made four long voyages; and, being an excellent navigator, he afterwards (1802) commanded a vessel, instructing his crews in lunar and other observations. He edited two editions of Hamilton Moore's Navigation, and in 1802 published a valuable work
Practical
Academy
and Sciences. He died at Boston on the 16th of March 1838. A life of Bowditch was written by his son Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch (18051861), and was prefixed to the fou2th volume (1839) of the translation of Laplace. In 1865 this was elaborated into a separate
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