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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.
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
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Polaris was referenced in the classic Nathaniel Bowditch maritime navigation book American Practical Navigator (1802), where it is listed as one of the navigational ...
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