Latham, Jean Lee
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch / Jean Lee Latham - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ? - 251 pages : illustrations ; 22 centimeters.
After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."
0618250816 (HC) 0618250743 (PA)
2003267707
Bowditch, Nathaniel,--Juvenile fiction.
Bowditch, Nathaniel,--Fiction.
Mathematicians--Fiction.
Astronomers--Fiction.
Navigation--Fiction.
Seafaring life--Fiction.
Salem (Mass.)--History--18th century--Fiction.
FIC L34c 1983
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch / Jean Lee Latham - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ? - 251 pages : illustrations ; 22 centimeters.
After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."
0618250816 (HC) 0618250743 (PA)
2003267707
Bowditch, Nathaniel,--Juvenile fiction.
Bowditch, Nathaniel,--Fiction.
Mathematicians--Fiction.
Astronomers--Fiction.
Navigation--Fiction.
Seafaring life--Fiction.
Salem (Mass.)--History--18th century--Fiction.
FIC L34c 1983