Bowditch's

The first edition of Bowditch's American Practical Navigator, which became the western hemisphere shipping industry standard for the next century and a half, and in 1866, the United States Hydrographic Office purchased the copyright.

Archive 2009-03-01 Heather McDougal 2009

This is something I have only come to appreciate as an adult: both in terms of Isaac Newton and in terms of understanding Bowditch's learning rate.

Mr. Bowditch: Brilliance and Populism Heather McDougal 2009

Serendipity aided Bowditch's self-directed study in as much as he found himself able to use the eminent Irish chemist Richard Kirwan's library: a privateer from Salem had intercepted the ship carrying the library between Ireland and England and brought the library back to Salem in June 1791. [wiki]

Archive 2009-03-01 Heather McDougal 2009

The first edition of Bowditch's American Practical Navigator, which became the western hemisphere shipping industry standard for the next century and a half, and in 1866, the United States Hydrographic Office purchased the copyright.

Mr. Bowditch: Brilliance and Populism Heather McDougal 2009

Serendipity aided Bowditch's self-directed study in as much as he found himself able to use the eminent Irish chemist Richard Kirwan's library: a privateer from Salem had intercepted the ship carrying the library between Ireland and England and brought the library back to Salem in June 1791. [wiki]

Mr. Bowditch: Brilliance and Populism Heather McDougal 2009

This is something I have only come to appreciate as an adult: both in terms of Isaac Newton and in terms of understanding Bowditch's learning rate.

Archive 2009-03-01 Heather McDougal 2009

An elementary treatise on plane and spherical trigonometry, with their applications to navigation, surveying, heights, and distances, and spherical astronomy, and particularly adapted to explaining the construction of Bowditch's navigator, and the nautical almanac, rev. ed.,

I Am Wearing Stolen Socks 2009

I made some phone calls to his friends and associates, posing as a freelance writer doing an article on Bowditch's retirement.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

Bowditch's leg was speared by his buddy's jagged rib bones.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

I made some phone calls to his friends and associates, posing as a freelance writer doing an article on Bowditch's retirement.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003