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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) American astronomer and mathematician, best known for his The New American Practical Navigator which became the standard authority of the United States Navy Department on the subject of navigation.
Francis L. Hawks, ed. Pictorial Cyclopaedia of Biography (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856) 115.
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