Author: Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch
Author: Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch (Trade)
Author: Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781429097451
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch memorialized his father Nathaniel Bowditch, the ""father of modern maritime navigation,"" in 1838. His recollections were published in this memoir in 1841.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781429097451
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch memorialized his father Nathaniel Bowditch, the ""father of modern maritime navigation,"" in 1838. His recollections were published in this memoir in 1841.
Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch
Author: Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch
Author: N. I. (Nathaniel Ingersoll) Bowditch
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016083768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016083768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
Author: Tamara Plakins Thornton
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
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." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming American life more broadly. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch operated and represented some of New England's most powerful institutions—from financial corporations to Harvard College—as clockwork mechanisms. By examining Bowditch's pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thornton's biography sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American science, and social elites in the early republic. Fleshing out the multiple careers of Nathaniel Bowditch, this book is at once a lively biography, a window into the birth of bureaucracy, and a portrait of patrician life, giving us a broader, more-nuanced understanding of how powerful capitalists operated during this era and how the emerging quantitative sciences shaped the modern experience.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
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." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming American life more broadly. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch operated and represented some of New England's most powerful institutions—from financial corporations to Harvard College—as clockwork mechanisms. By examining Bowditch's pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thornton's biography sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American science, and social elites in the early republic. Fleshing out the multiple careers of Nathaniel Bowditch, this book is at once a lively biography, a window into the birth of bureaucracy, and a portrait of patrician life, giving us a broader, more-nuanced understanding of how powerful capitalists operated during this era and how the emerging quantitative sciences shaped the modern experience.
Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch
Author: Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 142902111X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 142902111X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Social Structure and Social Mobility
Author: Neil L. Shumsky
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113560438X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
First Published in 1996. Volume 7 SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL MOBILITY of the ‘American Cities; series. This collection brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. Volume 7 looks at social class structure and social mobility. Its articles address questions that have intrigued historians for decades. What has been the class structure of American cities during the past two centuries? How much mobility has been possible? For whom has it been possible? What has been the relationship between social and geographic mobility? Finally, how have all kinds of Americans tried to improve their social status?
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113560438X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
First Published in 1996. Volume 7 SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL MOBILITY of the ‘American Cities; series. This collection brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. Volume 7 looks at social class structure and social mobility. Its articles address questions that have intrigued historians for decades. What has been the class structure of American cities during the past two centuries? How much mobility has been possible? For whom has it been possible? What has been the relationship between social and geographic mobility? Finally, how have all kinds of Americans tried to improve their social status?
Dictionary of Books relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375019920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375019920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
A Dictionary of Books relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846049670
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846049670
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description