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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bowditch , Nathaniel , 1773 -1838 (search)
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838
Mathematician and astronomer; born in Salem, Mass., March 26, 1773; learned the business of a ship-chandler, and then spent nine years on the sea, attaining the rank of master.
With great native talent and equal industry, he became one of the greatest men of science of his time.
While he was ye d not more than twelve in Great Britain, who were able to read the original work critically.
La Place added much to his work many years after it was published.
Bowditch translated this supplement; and it has been published, as a fifth volume, under the editorial care of Prof. Benjamin Peirce, with an elaborate commentary.
Bowdiished, as a fifth volume, under the editorial care of Prof. Benjamin Peirce, with an elaborate commentary.
Bowditch had acquired a knowledge of various languages, and drew his great store of knowledge from many sources.
He became a member of the principal scientific societies in Europe.
He died in Boston, Mass., March 16, 1838.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peirce , Benjamin 1809 - (search)
Peirce, Benjamin 1809-
Scientist; born in Salem, Mass., April 4, 1809; graduated at Harvard College in 1829; became tutor in mathematics there in 1831, and from 1842 to 1867 was Perkins Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics, and was also consulting astronomer to The Ephemcris and Nautical almanac from its establishment in 1849. Dr. Peirce was a pupil of Dr. Bowditch's, and read the proof-sheets of his translation of the Mecanique Celeste.
In September, 1867, he was appointed superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, which post he held until his death in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 6, 1880.
He was a member of leading scientific societies at home and abroad; an associate of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, 1842; member of the Royal Society of London, 1852; president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1853; and one of the scientific council that established the Dudley Observatory at Albany, N. Y., in 1855. Dr. Peirce published many scientifi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Petroleum. (search)