Bowditch, Nathaniel 1773-1838

Overview

Works:	471 works in 1,390 publications in 6 languages and 18,036 library holdings
Genres:	Biographies Periodicals Fiction Handbooks and manuals Portraits Tables (Data) History Sources Juvenile works
Roles:	Author, Translator, Originator, Other, Author of introduction, Editor, Former owner
Classifications:	VK555, 527

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Nathaniel Bowditch

Carry on, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham( Book )
Nathaniel Bowditch and the power of numbers : how a nineteenth-century man of business, science, and the sea changed American life by Tamara Plakins Thornton( )
Yankee stargazer : the life of Nathaniel Bowditch by Robert Elton Berry( Book )
Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch by N. I Bowditch( )
Bowditch's Salem : a walking tour of the Great Age of Sail( Book )

The varieties of human greatness : a discourse on the life and character of the Hon. Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D., F.R.S., delivered in the church on Church Green, March 25, 1838 by Alexander Young( )
Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch by N. I Bowditch( )
Navigator; the story of Nathaniel Bowditch by Alfred Stanford( Book )
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham( Recording )
History and bibliography of the New American practical navigator and the American coast pilot by J. F Campbell( Book )
Eulogy on Nathaniel Bowditch, LL. D., president of the American academy of arts and sciences; including an analysis of his scientific publications by John Pickering( )
To steer by the stars; the story of Nathaniel Bowditch by Paul Rink( Book )
A discourse on the life and character of the Hon. Nathaniel Bowditch, LL. D., F.R.S. : delivered in the church on Church Green, March 25, 1838 by Alexander Young( )
An eulogy on the life and character of Nathaniel Bowditch, LL. D.F.R.S. : Delivered at the request of the corporation of the city of Salem, May 24, 1838. by Daniel Appleton White( )
Report of the proprietors of the Bowditch Library by Mass.) Bowditch Library (BOSTON( )
Discourses on the life and character of John Thornton Kirkland, and of Nathaniel Bowditch. by Alexander Young( )
Nathaniel Bowditch, 1773-1838, of Salem and Boston; navigator, etc by Augustus Peabody Loring( Book )
A catalogue of a special exhibition of manuscripts, books, portraits and personal relics of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) by Peabody Museum of Salem( Book )
Moral heroism, or, The trials and triumphs of the great and good by Clara Lucas Balfour( )
Sketch of the life and character of Nathaniel Bowditch, LL. D. : made at the dedication of the Bowditch School, January 7, 1862 by Henry I Bowditch( )

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Most widely held works by Nathaniel Bowditch

American practical navigator: an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy by Nathaniel Bowditch( Book )

73 editions published between 1901 and 1981 in English and held by 490 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation : containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical almanac, in determining the latitude, and the longitude by lunar observations, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea : illustrated by proper rules and examples : the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira ... by Nathaniel Bowditch( Book )

25 editions published between 1807 and 1978 in English and held by 473 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The new practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation, containing the different methods of working the lunar observations, and all the requisite tables used with the nautical almanac, in determining the latitude and longitude and keeping a complete reckoning at sea: illustrated by proper rules and examples. : The whole exemplified in a journal kept from England to the island of Teneriffe ... by John Hamilton Moore( )

13 editions published between 1799 and 1800 in English and held by 408 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mécanique céleste by Pierre Simon Laplace( Book )

20 editions published between 1829 and 1839 in 3 languages and held by 339 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

One of five classic volumes of the works by the Marquis de Laplace on celestial mechanics

Celestial mechanics by Pierre Simon Laplace( Book )

9 editions published between 1966 and 1969 in English and French and held by 330 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy by Nathaniel Bowditch( Book )

53 editions published between 1802 and 2017 in English and held by 254 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American practical navigator by Nathaniel Bowditch( )

in English and Undetermined and held by 252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Useful tables from the American practical navigator. Re-edited and published and sold by the U.S. Hydrographic office by direction of the secretary of the Navy in accordance with the acts of Congress by Nathaniel Bowditch( Book )

44 editions published between 1882 and 2012 in English and held by 249 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Early American-Philippine trade : the journal of Nathaniel Bowditch in Manila, 1796 by Nathaniel Bowditch( Book )

13 editions published between 1902 and 1962 in English and held by 238 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American practical navigator : an epitome of navigation by Nathaniel Bowditch( Book )

67 editions published between 1802 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 215 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Premier reference for modern, practical marine navigation, originally published in 1802 and revised and updated continuously to keep pace with changes in navigation and technologies

American practical navigator( )

in English and held by 211 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The American practical navigator : an epitome of navigation by Nathaniel Bowditch( Book )

3 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 210 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Directions for sailing into the harbours of Salem, Marblehead, Beverly, and Manchester by Nathaniel Bowditch( Book )

12 editions published between 1806 and 1977 in English and held by 208 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American practical navigator; an epitome of navigation by Nathaniel Bowditch( Book )

1 edition published in 1966 in English and held by 195 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation ; containing all the tables necessary to be used with the Nautical almanac in determining the latitude, and the longitude by lunar observations, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea ; the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira ; with an appendix, containing methods of calculating eclipses of the sun and moon, and occultations of the fixed stars by Nathaniel Bowditch( Book )

8 editions published between 1832 and 1970 in English and held by 183 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American practical navigator : an epitome of navigation by Nathaniel Bowditch( Book )

4 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 183 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bowditch's useful tables by Nathaniel Bowditch( )

16 editions published between 1844 and 2000 in English and held by 157 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Waves, wind, and weather : selected from American practical navigator by Nathaniel Bowditch( Book )

4 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 156 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American practical navigator : an epitome of navigation by Nathaniel Bowditch( Book )

in English and held by 155 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation : containing all the tables necessary to be used with the nautical almanac in determining the latitude, and the longitude by lunar observations, and keeping a complete reckoning at sea : illustrated by proper rules and examples : the whole exemplified in a journal, kept from Boston to Madeira ... : enriched with a number of new tables by Nathaniel Bowditch( Book )

10 editions published between 1802 and 1964 in English and held by 149 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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