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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

机译：纳撒尼尔·鲍迪奇（Nathaniel Bowditch）和数字的力量：19世纪的商业，科学和海洋人如何改变了美国人的生活

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Nathanial Bowditch is a historical figure very much in need of a biography. A richly researched volume, this work covers the entirety of Bowditch's life from the 1770s to 1838. With Bow-ditch's career as a lens, Thornton's work provides a new perspective on the interrelated worlds of business and scientific thought in the turbulent period between the American Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Bowditch was born into an impoverished, yet socially established family. With a father reduced to running a cooperage, Bowditch used family connections to gain access to libraries containing texts on science, navigation and language while working as a bookkeeper for a ship chandler. Bowditch eventually earnt a place as a supercargo on a series of voyages from 1795 and returning to Salam in 1803 he successfully transitioned into the business world. He eventually relocated from Salam to Boston and started working as an actuary and directing several trust funds. Bowditch produced two significant publications, first The American practical navigator in 1802, which went on to become the standard issue text for American merchant sailors. Secondly, Bowditch translated the first four volumes of Pierre-Simon de Laplace's Mecanique celeste. The translation was complete by around 1818, but unwilling to use public funds to publish such a theoretical text, Bowditch instead focused on expanding his commentary, almost doubling the length of Laplace's original work. It was finally publish during the last decade of Bowditch's life 1829-1839.
机译：纳撒尼尔·鲍迪奇（Nathanial Bowditch）是一位历史人物，非常需要传记。这项研究内容丰富，涵盖了鲍迪奇（Bowditch）从1770年代到1838年代的整个生活。以鲍迪奇（Bow-ditch）的职业生涯为视角，桑顿的作品为美国与美国之间动荡时期的商业和科学思想之间的相互联系提供了新的视角。革命战争和南北战争。鲍迪奇（Bowditch）出生于一个贫穷但有社会地位的家庭。由于父亲被剥夺了经营合作社的权利，鲍迪奇（Bowditch）通过家庭联系获得了访问图书馆的权利，该图书馆包含有关科学，导航和语言的文本，而他是一名船长的簿记员。鲍迪奇（Bowditch）从1795年开始在一系列航程中最终成为超级货物，并在1803年返回萨拉姆（Salam），成功地转型为商业世界。他最终从萨拉姆（Salam）搬到波士顿，开始从事精算师工作，并领导多个信托基金。鲍迪奇（Bowditch）出版了两本重要著作，第一本是1802年的《美国实用航海家》，后来成为美国商船水手的标准发行文本。其次，鲍迪奇翻译了皮埃尔·西蒙·德拉普拉斯的《咖啡大师》的前四卷。翻译工作于1818年左右完成，但鲍迪奇不愿动用公共资金发表这样的理论著作，而是专注于扩大他的评论，几乎使拉普拉斯原著的长度翻了一番。它最终在Bowditch的生平1829-1839的最后十年出版。

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    《Journal for maritime research》 |2016年第2期|168-169|共2页
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    Sophie Waring;

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    Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford;

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