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unusual facts about Bowditch's American Practical Navigator


Bowditch's American Practical Navigator

After the first major revision, a total overhaul of the book's content completed in 1880 under the direction of Commander Philip H. Cooper, USN, the name was changed to American Practical Navigator.


Angel problem

The proofs by Bowditch and Máthé have been published in Combinatorics, Probability and Computing (edited by Béla Bollobás and Imre Leader).

Annie Haven Thwing

In the course of her life she corresponded with a number of notables including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Fanny Bowditch Dixwell Holmes, Alice James, Charles Franklin Thwing, Horace Howard Furness, and Edward Everett Hale.

Fakaofo

Previously known as Bowditch (after its discoverer, Nathaniel Bowditch), this island was visited by the American ship Peacock which was part of the first American voyage of discovery – The United States Exploring Expedition (also known as "the Ex Ex" or "the Wilkes Expedition"), 1838–1842, United States Navy Lieutenant Charles Wilkes commanding.

N. Bowditch Blunt

Nathaniel Bowditch Blunt (ca. 1804, Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts – July 17, 1854, Lebanon Springs, Columbia County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Simeon Eben Baldwin

Such records as we have do not indicate that there was anything unusual about this young student who had among his classroom contemporaries the poet Edward Rowland Sill, and two others who like himself were later to have much to do with the life of the university, his friends Tracy Peck and Franklin Bowditch Dexter.


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