Review of Bowditch's Translation of the "Mécanique Céleste".
Title | Review of Bowditch's Translation of the "Mécanique Céleste". PDF eBook |
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Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1839 |
Genre | Celestial mechanics |
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Mécanique céleste, tr. with a comm. by N. Bowditch. (With a memoir of the translator, by N.I. Bowditch).
Title | Mécanique céleste, tr. with a comm. by N. Bowditch. (With a memoir of the translator, by N.I. Bowditch). PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace |
Publisher | |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1839 |
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The Edinburgh Review
Title | The Edinburgh Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 1833 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal
Title | The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 606 |
Release | 1833 |
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Benjamin Peirce, 1809-1880
Title | Benjamin Peirce, 1809-1880 PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Clare Archibald |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1925 |
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ISBN |
The American Mathematical Monthly
Title | The American Mathematical Monthly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Mathematicians |
ISBN |
Includes section "Recent publications."
Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
Title | Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers PDF eBook |
Author | Tamara Plakins Thornton |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2016-02-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1469626942 |
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming American life more broadly. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch operated and represented some of New England's most powerful institutions—from financial corporations to Harvard College—as clockwork mechanisms. By examining Bowditch's pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thornton's biography sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American science, and social elites in the early republic. Fleshing out the multiple careers of Nathaniel Bowditch, this book is at once a lively biography, a window into the birth of bureaucracy, and a portrait of patrician life, giving us a broader, more-nuanced understanding of how powerful capitalists operated during this era and how the emerging quantitative sciences shaped the modern experience.