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    Nathaniel Bowditch (March 26, 1773 – March 16, 1838) was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. He is often credited...
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  • Mr. Bowditch is a novel by Jean Lee Latham that was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1956. The book is a children's biography of Nathaniel Bowditch, a sailor...
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    The Nathaniel Bowditch House, sometimes called the Bowditch-Osgood House and the Curwen-Ward-Bowditch House, is a historic house and National Historic...
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    Practical Navigator (colloquially often referred to as Bowditch), originally written by Nathaniel Bowditch, is an encyclopedia of navigation. It serves as a...
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    the South China Sea. She is named after mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch. On 24 March 2001, Bowditch encountered a PLA Navy frigate, which came within 100...
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    Bowditch was born on August 9, 1808, in Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Bowditch, a renowned mathematician. He graduated from Harvard College in 1828...
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    frequency (a and b). The resulting family of curves was investigated by Nathaniel Bowditch in 1815, and later in more detail in 1857 by Jules Antoine Lissajous...
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    to pray daily into adulthood. His middle name, Bowditch, comes from mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch. After graduating from high school in 1971, Morse...
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    (1893–1966), U.S. Army major general Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838), mathematician and navigator; Nathaniel Bowditch School is named in his honor Edward...
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  • of Richmond, California Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838), American mathematician, father of modern maritime navigation Nathaniel Buzolic (born 1983), Australian...
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    céleste" translated by Nathaniel Bowditch(1829) Title page of Volume 1 of "Mécanique céleste" translated by Nathaniel Bowditch(1829) First page of Volume...
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  • footballer Brian Bowditch (born 1961), British mathematician Charles Pickering Bowditch (1842 – 1921), grandson of Nathaniel Bowditch, brother of Henry...
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    Fakaofo (redirect from Bowditch Island)
    General Jackson returned in 1839. The island was then named Bowditch (after Nathaniel Bowditch), this island was visited by the American ship USS Peacock...
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  • Hawthorne Hotel. 1768 Essex Gazette newspaper begins publication. 1773 Nathaniel Bowditch (March 26, 1773 – March 16, 1838) American mathematician, born in...
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  • Hall on Central Campus. Named for Nathaniel Bowditch, Bowditch Hall was originally the school's men's dormitory. Bowditch Hall is six stories high and sits...
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    Bowditch is a lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the eastern limb. It is located on a region of the lunar surface that...
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    specialized in Mayan epigraphy. Bowditch was born in Boston into the Massachusetts Bowditch family of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch, his grandfather, and physiologist...
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  • Mary Everest Boole (homemaker, librarian) William Bourne (innkeeper) Nathaniel Bowditch (indentured bookkeeper) Achille Brocot (clockmaker) Jost Bürgi (clockmaker)...
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  • Edwin Booth (1833–1893), actor Edwin Boring (1886–1968), psychologist Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838), mathematician, seaman, author; his monument was the first...
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    should pass." Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838) Early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. In 1804, Bowditch became what was...
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    first discussed by James Dean in 1815 and analyzed mathematically by Nathaniel Bowditch in the same year. A bob is suspended from a string that in turn hangs...
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    of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved April 24, 2023. Bowditch, Nathaniel Ingersoll, Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch, Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1840. Cf...
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    Salem. Driscoll obtained a federal grant to cover 90% of the cost of Nathaniel Bowditch, a $2.1 million 92-foot high-speed catamaran that travels from Salem...
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    number MCV 694, a type VC2-S-AP3 Victory ship, she was named for Nathaniel Bowditch, the second U.S. Navy vessel named in his honor. The ship was acquired...
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    Tower in the cemetery Cemetery designer, Dr. Jacob Bigelow's grave Nathaniel Bowditch Mary Baker Eddy Memorial Mount Auburn Cemetery Hunnewell family obelisk...
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  • Birkhoff (1884–1944) David Blackwell (1919–2010) Archie Blake (b. 1906) Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838) Felix Browder (1927–2016) William Browder (b. 1934), pioneered...
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  • Retrieved 8 November 2023. "Nathaniel Bowditch". American Practical Navigator: An Epitome of Navigation : Originally by Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D. Washington: U...
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    Splitting the Second. CRC Press. p. 121. ISBN 0750306408. Nathaniel Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch (1826). The New American Practical Navigator. E. M...
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    State Senate from 2003 to 2013 Matt Bloom, professional wrestler Nathaniel Bowditch, early American astronomer, mathematician, and navigator Patrick Francis...
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    History of longitude Longitude prize Henry Raper Bowditch's American Practical Navigator Nathaniel Bowditch Norie, J. W. (1828). New and Complete Epitome...
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