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The New Practical Navigator was published in 1799, followed by a second edition in 1800. By 1802, when Blunt was ready to publish a third edition, Nathaniel Bowditch and others had corrected so many errors in Moore's work that Blunt decided to publish it as the first edition of a new work, The New American Practical Navigator.
Nathaniel Bowditch (March 26, 1773 – March 16, 1838) was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation.He is often credited as the founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.
Bowditch had by then already published his New American Practical Navigator, a major revision and update of an earlier British work that was riddled with errors. This work provided up-to-date information on tides, currents, and astronomical tables, and has served as the basis for modern navigational guides ever since. [ 4 ]
Joseph's youngest brother, N. Bowditch Blunt, was New York County district attorney from 1851 to 1854. The other two brothers, Edmund (1799–1866) and George William (1802–1878) [8] followed their father's steps and got involved in nautical affairs.
Furthermore, the description of the "New American Practical Navigator" as a "new book" authored by Bowditch is misleading. The original book was a re-write, a re-editing, an American-ized version of Moore's "New Practical Navigator" and, in fact, many of the new sections were copied wholesale from other English works on navigation.
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Frontispiece of the 1802 first edition of Bowditch's The New American Practical Navigator. During the wars with France (1793 to 1815) the Royal Navy aggressively reclaimed British deserters on board ships of other nations, both by halting and searching merchant ships, and in many cases, by searching American port cities.
Buys Ballot's law first appeared in early versions (prior to 1900) of Bowditch's American Practical Navigator and other publications written to assist in passage planning and the safe conduct of ships at sea and is still included today both in Bowditch and in Sailing Directions (see following reference) as an item of practical reference and ...