TY  - BOOK
AU  - Latham,Jean Lee
AU  - Cosgrave,John O'Hara
TI  - Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
SN  - 0618250816 (HC)
AV  - PZ7.L348 Car 2003
U1  - [Fic] 22
PY  - 2003///?]
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - Bowditch, Nathaniel,
KW  - Mathematicians
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Astronomers
KW  - Navigation
KW  - Seafaring life
KW  - Salem (Mass.)
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
N2  - 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."
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm031/2003267707.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0736/2003267707-b.html
ER  -