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Nathaniel Bowditch 1773-1838, American navigator and mathematician, b. Salem, Mass. He had no formal schooling after the age of 10. 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. A new edition appeared under Bowditch's name as The American Practical Navigator (1802-19); it has been published by the U.S. Hydrographic Office since 1867. Bowditch made a translation (4 vol., 1829-39) of Laplace's Mécanique céleste.

Bibliography: See biographies by his son N. I. Bowditch (3d ed. 1884) and P. Rink (1969).

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Bowditch, Nathaniel (1773–1838), navigator and mathematician of Salem, Mass., who corrected Moore's Practical Navigator and after substantial revision issued it under his own name as The New American Practical Navigator (1802). More than 60 editions have since appeared, and this standard work is still referred to as Bowditch's Navigator.

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