Carry on, Mr. Bowditch / Jean Lee Latham
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TextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ?Description: 251 pages : illustrations ; 22 centimetersISBN: 0618250816 (HC); 0618250743 (PA)Subject(s): Bowditch, Nathaniel, -- Juvenile fiction | Bowditch, Nathaniel, -- Fiction | Mathematicians -- Fiction | Astronomers -- Fiction | Navigation -- Fiction | Seafaring life -- Fiction | Salem (Mass.) -- History -- 18th century -- FictionDDC classification: FIC L34c 1983 Summary: 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."
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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."
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