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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838)

Autor/a de The American Practical Navigator: Bowditch

47 obres 521 Membres 2 Ressenyes

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Obres de Nathaniel Bowditch

Waves Wind and Weather (1977) 15 exemplars
Bowditch's Coastal Navigation (1979) 10 exemplars
Bowditch's useful tables (2006) 2 exemplars
Marine weather (1979) 1 exemplars

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valuable handbook navigation, oceanography and meteorology, and contains useful tables and a maritime glossary (“The New Practical Navigator” first published in 1802) Bowditch was extensively revised between 1946 and 1958. It was Nathaniel Bowditch’s original intention "to put down in the book nothing I can’t teach the crew." To this end, many complex formulas and equations have been eliminated, and emphasis placed on the capabilities and limitations of various navigation systems and how to use them, instead of explaining complex technical and theoretical details.… (més)
 
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MasseyLibrary | Apr 17, 2018 |
'I thank you, Sir, for your highly scientific pamphlet on the motion of the Pendulum, and more particularly for that containing the deductions of longitudes of places in the United States, from the Solar eclipse of 1811. That of Monticello is especially acceptable, having too long lost familiarity with such operations to have undertaken it myself. Mr Lambert of Washington had also favored me with his calculation, which varied minutely only from your's; he having, from the same elements, made the Longitude of Monticello 78º 50' 18.877" W. from Greenwich. I am happy indeed to find that this most sublime of all sciences is so eminently cultivated by you, and that our Rittenhouse was not the only meteor of the hemisphere in which he lived.'—Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Bowditch, May 2, 1815… (més)
 
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Obres
47
Membres
521
Popularitat
#47,687
Valoració
½ 4.3
Ressenyes
2
ISBN
51

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