Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life/Tamara Plakins Thornton - University of North Carolina Press

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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.
Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularit.
Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and Business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped Nineteenth-Century capitalism while transforming American life more broadly.
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