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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.
References like the Nautical Almanac and The American Practical Navigator provide four star charts, covering different portions of the celestial sphere. Two of these charts are azimuthal equidistant projections of the north and south poles. The other two cover the equatorial region of the celestial sphere, from the declination of 30° south to ...
Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838), American mathematician and author of Bowditch's American Practical Navigator; Steven Bowditch (born 1983), Australian professional golfer; William Ingersoll Bowditch (1819–1909), American lawyer, abolitionist, suffragist, writer
Archived from the original (PDF) on October 22, 2021; Mullarkey, William E.; Cobb, A. Donn (1 October 1966). Artemis Module Field Survey by Alvin (Report). New London, CT: U.S. Naval Underwater Sound Laboratory; NIMA (1995). American Practical Navigator (PDF). Bethesda, Maryland: National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA).
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Two sample pages of the 2002 Nautical Almanac published by the U.S. Naval Observatory. A nautical almanac is a publication describing the positions of a selection of celestial bodies for the purpose of enabling navigators to use celestial navigation to determine the position of their ship while at sea.
The text of this article originated from sections 418 and 419 of The American Practical Navigator, a document produced by the government of the United States of America. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .