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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.
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.
Nathan Daboll (May 5 1750 [O.S. April 24, 1750] – March 9, 1818) was an American teacher who wrote the mathematics textbook most commonly used in American schools in the first half of the 19th century. [1]
Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808–1892), American abolitionist, physician, public reformer; Henry Pickering Bowditch (1840–1911), American physiologist, Dean of Harvard Medical School; Ian Bowditch (born 1939), Australian fencer; Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838), American mathematician and author of Bowditch's American Practical Navigator
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.
His book, Bowditch's American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. naval vessel. [citation needed] The original Fame was a fast Chebacco fishing schooner that was reborn as a privateer when war broke out in the summer of 1812.
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch is a novel by Jean Lee Latham that was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1956.. The book is a children's biography of Nathaniel Bowditch, a sailor and mathematician who published the mammoth and comprehensive reference work for seamen: The American Practical Navigator.