Today is Nathaniel
Bowditch's Birthday!
A Bowditch-Lissajous Curve
Born: March 26, 1773
in Salem, MA
Died: March 16, 1838
in Boston, MA
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Bowditch's New American Practical Navigator (1802) became known
as "the seaman's Bible" and is still published. He loved to carry
out complex mathematical computations and eventually became one of the
very first Americans to receive international acclaim. |