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Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life Tamara Plakins Thornton
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Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life
Tamara Plakins Thornton
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." 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.
400 pages, 19 halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 18, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781469626932 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 400 |
| Dimensions | 242 × 168 × 36 mm · 746 g |
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