Carry on, Mr. Bowditch /
Latham, Jean Lee.
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch / by Jean Lee Latham ; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [c2003?]. - 251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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."
Newbery Medal, 1956.
0618250816 (HC) 0618250743 (PA)
2003267707
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 --Juvenile fiction.
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 --Fiction.
Mathematicians--Fiction.
Astronomers--Fiction.
Navigation--Fiction.
Seafaring life--Fiction.
Salem (Mass.)--History--18th century--Fiction.
PZ7.L348 / Car 2003
[Fic]
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch / by Jean Lee Latham ; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [c2003?]. - 251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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."
Newbery Medal, 1956.
0618250816 (HC) 0618250743 (PA)
2003267707
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 --Juvenile fiction.
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 --Fiction.
Mathematicians--Fiction.
Astronomers--Fiction.
Navigation--Fiction.
Seafaring life--Fiction.
Salem (Mass.)--History--18th century--Fiction.
PZ7.L348 / Car 2003
[Fic]