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There is a nice book called
"Carry on, Mr. Bowditch" by
Jean Lee Latham.  Light, easy
to read and fun.

Omar

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexandre Eremenko" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 7:15 PM
Subject: Who was Bowditch


> 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.
>

   

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