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	Nathaniel Bowditch - LoveToKnow 1911
		NATHANIEL BOWDITCH (1773-1838), American mathematician, was born at Salem, Massachusetts.
		A life of Bowditch was written by his son Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch (1805-1861), and was prefixed to the fourth volume (1839) of the translation of Laplace.
		In 1865 this was elaborated into a separate biography by another son, Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808-1892), a famous Boston physician.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Nathaniel_Bowditch (233 words)

	Nathaniel Bowditch
		Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Nathaniel was the fourth child of Habakkuk and Mary (Ingersoll) Bowditch.
		Bowditch's son, Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, wrote Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch (1840), which is also found prefixed to the fourth volume of the Mécanique céleste.
		Nathaniel Bowditch (1838); John Pickering, Eulogy on Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D., President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1838); and David Appleton White, An Eulogy on the Life and Character of Nathaniel Bowditch (1838).
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/nathanielbowditch.html (1543 words)

	Nathaniel Bowditch
		Bowditch bestowed much of his large income upon charitable objects, including a gift of $70,000 to Harvard for founding scholarships, and a bequest of $2,000 to that College for the purchase of books.*Another son, Henry Ingersoll, physician, born in Salem, Massachusetts, 9 August.
		To Dr. Bowditch is due the discovery of the law of soil moisture as a potent cause of consumption in New England.
		Bowditch was made an abolitionist by the mobbing of Garrison in 1835, and worked earnestly in the anti-slavery cause.
	famousamericans.net /nathanielbowditch (1742 words)

	Nathaniel Bowditch Summary
		Nathaniel Bowditch was born March 26, 1773, in Salem, Mass., the son of a shipmaster and cooper.
		Bowditch's annotated edition is nearly twice the size of the original and constitutes a major critical work; it was well received by most European scientists and earned Bowditch international fame.
		Bowditch was not an original thinker but primarily a meticulous and exhaustive critic endowed with exceptional mathematical skills.
	www.bookrags.com /Nathaniel_Bowditch (1763 words)

	Life - Nathaniel Bowditch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nathaniel Bowditch (March 26, 1773 - March 16 1838) was an early United States mathematician, who wrote on practical navigation.
		Bowditch, the fourth of seven children, was born in Salem, Massachusetts.
		In 1795 Bowditch went to sea on the first of four voyages as supercargo and captains writer.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /AAVSO1604/nathaniel-bowditch-life.html (162 words)

	Bowditch biography
		Nathaniel Bowditch's father was Habakkuk Bowditch who was a cooper, that is a maker and repairer of wooden casks.
		Bowditch's scientific career was largely one of self-education; the United States of his day afforded very little opportunity for research in astronomy and mathematical physics.
		Bowditch was now coming up in the world and he gave up his career as a sailor in 1804 to move into the business world.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Bowditch.html (1642 words)

	Historic Salem, Inc., Salem, Massachusetts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The result is the Bowditch Initiative, which will tell the story of Nathaniel Bowditch and his extraordinary achievements as navigator, ship's master, teacher and scientist to the people of Salem, the North Shore and New England.
		A Bowditch fund-raising campaign to raise the necessary monies to restore the house, put in place the education and interpretive programs, and provide an endowment fund to assure their integrity into the future.
		Bowditch discovered that there was a pattern in the changes of each of these observable phenomena and was then able to predict the future.
	www.historicsalem.org /newsletter/1100/bowditch.html (681 words)

	Nathaniel Bowditch House, featured in Maritime History of Massachusetts--A National Register of Historic Places Travel ...
		Nathaniel Bowditch was a prominent 18th-century mariner who effected great advances in navigation and helped bring European mathematics to America.
		Bowditch became president of the Essex Fire and Marine Insurance Company and in 1811 bought a three-story, Federal style clapboard house at 312 Essex Street for his growing family.
		The Nathaniel Bowditch House, a National Historic Landmark, is located at 9 North St. in Salem.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/maritime/bow.htm (621 words)

	Salem Massachusetts - Salem Tales
		Nathaniel Bowditch was born in Salem in 1773, the fourth of seven children.
		Bowditch, armed with substantial royalties and honorary Masters and Doctorate degrees from Harvard, retired from sea turned to other pursuits.
		Bowditch needed the money to finance the project that was to occupy most of his available time for the last two decades of his life: the publication of his translation of Pierre Laplace's
	www.salemweb.com /tales/bowditch.shtml (383 words)

	Nathaniel Bowditch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bowditch's translation of the first four volumes of Laplace's Traité de mécanique céleste was completed by 1818.
		Nathaniel Bowditch died in Boston in 1838 from lactosis.
		Bowditch, was published, portraying Bowditch's life as if from his point of view.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nathaniel_Bowditch (1047 words)

	Tammy's Homeschooling Curriculum and Book Reviews -- Carry On, Mr Bowditch
		We meet Nathaniel Bowditch when he's just 6 years old right before his family was moving back to Salem, Massachusetts.
		This led Nathaniel Bowditch to write his own navigation books some of which are still in print.
		Bowditch would be a good addition to a "ships" unit study or a unit on America during the end of the 1700's.
	www.abasiccurriculum.com /reviews/readaloud/bowditch.html (503 words)

	A Very Grave Matter - Elizabeth Bowditch - Old Burying Point, Salem MA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He is also the focus of the Bowditch Initiative, an organization dedicated to restoring the Bowditch House in which he lived in from 1811 to 1823.
		Nathaniel Bowditch made numerous contributions during his lifetime, which you can read about here.
		Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician; removed to Boston in 1823; married, first, Elizabeth Boardman March 25, 1798; she died Oct. 18, 1798; married, secondly, Mary Ingersoll Oct. 28, 1800; she died April 27, 1834; he died at Boston March 16, 1838; Children: Charles Ingersoll born about 1810.
	www.gravematter.com /elizabethbowditch.htm (165 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / NATHANIEL BOWDITCH THE PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR
		Bowditch persuaded Prince to sign him as second mate and clerk and also to let him take along a lew pairs of shoes lor profitable trade on his own account—an “adventure” it was called in those days.
		Bowditch had never been popular in Salem, and a plaintive entry in his journal is indicative of the humble status of this heartsick and lonely man: “… none of my friends in Salem have seen fit to notify me or give me any details of the death of my beloved wife.”
		Bowditch, and after his death his family, carefully amended and republished it until 1868, when the work was taken over by the Hydrographic Office of the Bureau of Navigation, United States Navy.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1960/5/1960_5_56.shtml (7483 words)

	Nathaniel Bowditch
		Nathaniel Bowditch was an astronomer, mathematician, and revisor of navigation.
		When Nathaniel was 12 he became indentured to the town ship-chandlers.
		Bowditch taught his shipmates the skill of "lead, log and look-out," which allowed them to learn the calculations necessary to navigate their voyage.
	library.thinkquest.org /6169/nat.htm (444 words)

	Bowditch
		The Bowditch Institute of Salem of Salem will celebrate the bicentennial of Nathaniel Bowditch’s The New American Practical Navigator with a conference on the topic, "Nathaniel Bowditch: The Art and Science of Navigation, 1802–2002" to be held at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts, November 8–10, 2002.
		Befitting the broad range of Bowditch’s activities—five commercial voyages to the East, advancement of celestial navigation and maritime cartography, contributions to the development of insurance and civic institutions—this interdisciplinary conference will address a broad range of aspects of the navigator's work and legacy.
		Bowditch scholars and navigation specialists from eminent research universities, as well as scholars from the U.
	www.salemstate.edu /bowditch (291 words)

	Lissajous or Bowditch Curves - National Curve Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nathaniel Bowditch (1773 - 1838) was the first American to receive international recognition as a mathematician.
		Bowditch, working in the isolation of New England's Salem and Boston areas, held a life-long fascination with doing tedious calculations.
		During Bowditch’s lifetime in Boston, one printed mathematics book would commonly be imported by a professor.
	curvebank.calstatela.edu /lissajous/lissajous.htm (397 words)

	Nathaniel Bowditch House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nathaniel Bowditch House (circa 1805), sometimes called by Bowditch-Osgood House, is a historic house located at 9 North Street, Salem, Massachusetts.
		The Bowditch House is significant both architecturally and historically.
		It is a three-story, low-hipped, clapboarded house in the Federal style, with a recessed front doorway (added circa 1825) and a recently restored roof balustrade, originally built for the Corwin family, famous for their part in the Salem Witch Trials.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nathaniel_Bowditch_House (235 words)

	AllRefer.com - Nathaniel Bowditch (Mathematics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Nathaniel Bowditch 1773–1838, American navigator and mathematician, b.
		In 1795 he went to sea, and on five long voyages he carried out his studies in navigation and as a result corrected some 8,000 errors in Moore's Practical Navigator, first published in America in 1799.
		Bowditch made a translation (4 vol., 1829–39) of Laplace's MEcanique cEleste.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bowditch.html (200 words)

	TIME.com: Bowditch Legs -- Apr. 15, 1929 -- Page 1
		The Bowditches are among the oldest of U. families, descended as they are from one William Bowditch who lived at Salem, Mass., from 1639.
		Nathaniel Bowditch made his fortune as actuary of the Massachusetts Life Insurance Co.; his fame, as translator-commentator of Laplace's Mécanique Céleste.
		His brother was Henry Ingersoll (all Nathaniel's children had Ingersoll for middle name) Bowditch (1808-92), Harvard medical professor, discoverer of the "all-or-nothing" reaction of the heart muscle,* inventor of a way to drain chests in pleurisy.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,881800,00.html (458 words)

	Maine Windjammer Association Newsletter: Welcome Aboard the Nathaniel Bowditch
		After her tour of duty, Nathaniel Bowditch was purchased by a fisherman for dragging in Long Island Sound.
		There, Nathaniel Bowditch bottomed out with the tides until the early sixties when businessman/sea captain Bob Douglas recognized, even in such dilapidated condition, her aristocratic spoon bow.
		The Nathaniel Bowditch is a hard-working schooner with a colorful past—racing yacht, coastal patrol boat, fishing schooner and now a passenger-carrying windjammer.
	www.imakenews.com /nmarshall/e_article000217756.cfm (398 words)

	Nathaniel Bowditch - Okaloosa Island
		Walley is well-schooled in Bowditch's amazing life and is happy to offer detailed background information on him.
		The 54-foot traditionally rigged steel schooner is recognizable by the royal blue streamer hoisted on the tallest mast and the complement American and Australian flags.
		The Nathaniel Bowditch is docked at the Harborwalk complex behind the Lucky Snapper restaurant.
	www.gulfcoasttraveler.com /Features/NathanielBowditch.htm (549 words)

	History of the Schooner Nathaniel Bowditch
		Designed by William Hand, the Schooner Nathaniel Bowditch was built in 1922 in East Boothbay, Maine as a private racing yacht.
		In 1971 the Bowditch was purchased by American Practical Navigators, Inc. She was completely rebuilt for passenger trade.
		She was renamed Nathaniel Bowditch after the brilliant mathematician and author of The New American Practical Navigator.
	www.windjammervacation.com /history.html (161 words)

	Capt. Habakkuk Bowditch, William Bowditch - Old Burying Point Cemetery, Salem Massachusetts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Habakkuk was the father of Nathaniel Bowditch, the famed Astronomer, Navigator and Mathematician.
		Nathaniel's formal education ended at age ten due to his family suddenly being thrust into poverty.
		Habakkuk Bowditch; mariner, married Mary Ingersoll July 23, 1765; she died Dec. 14, 1783; he died July 28, 1798; 30
	www.gravematter.com /bowditch3.htm (219 words)

	Nathaniel Bowditch
		Nathaniel Bowditch entered this world on March 26, 1773 in Salem, Massachusetts.
		Understand that Nathaniel loved to figure out mathematical problems which were related, in some way, to navigation.
		And, in 1865, this biography was elaborated into a separate biography by Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808-1892).
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b4bowditchn.htm (1297 words)

	Schooner NATHANIEL BOWDITCH, Destin, FL
		Enjoy relaxed three-hour cruises under sail aboard the 54' traditionally rigged steel schooner "Nathaniel Bowditch" exploring the realm of dolphins and wild sea creatures.
		Nathaniel Bowditch was born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1773, during the great era of sailing vessels.
		By the time he was 20, Nathaniel had learned 4 different languages so that he could even further pursue his education.
	www.bowditchsailing.com /lowband (329 words)

	July 28, 2000 Nominations for the Nathaniel Bowditch Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nominations are now being accepted for the inaugural Nathaniel Bowditch Prize to be awarded each year by the MGH Board of Trustees.
		The $5,000 prize will be given to a person – clinician or nonclinician – who has made a significant contribution to improving quality of care at the hospital while reducing the cost of such care.
		Nomination forms are available in the Main Lobby, the Blum Patient and Family Learning Center, the Bigelow 10 nursing office and the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization office on Bulfinch 2.
	www.mgh.harvard.edu /pubaffairs/issues/072800bowditchprize.htm (171 words)

	[Letter] 1807 December 24, Salem, Mass., [to] Rev.d J. Morse D.D. / Nathaniel Bowditch. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		[Letter] 1807 December 24, Salem, Mass., [to] Rev.d J. Morse D.D. / Nathaniel Bowditch.
		Bowditch tells Morse he has not noticed any such variations as are mentioned in the letter, and provides a series of observations from Cambridge.
		Bowditch was an American mathematical prodigy and astronomer who edited an American edition of J.H. Moore's work on navigation,
	digital.lib.lehigh.edu /remain/1632/index.html (96 words)

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