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Who was Bowditch
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Jan 31, 16:15 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Jan 31, 16:15 -0500
By pure accident I found a comprehensive 168 pages biography of Nathaniel Bowdich, written by his children (unsigned). For the reasons unrelated to Cel Nav, I checked in our library the 1-st volume of Celestial Mechanics by Laplace. It turns out that this was translated into English by Bowditch. And his children wrote this long paper about him, included in Volume I, adding a portrait of him and his wife. The biography is quite entertaining. The precise reference is: "Celestial Mechanics" by Marquis de La Place, translated, with a commentary by Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D, published in Boston in 1829, 1832, 1834 and 1839, in four volumes; what we have is a Chelsea reprint, NY 1966. Alex.
