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See also:BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL (1773-1838) , See also:American mathe-
matician, was See also:born at See also:Salem, See also:Massachusetts. He was bred to his See also:father's business as a See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
cooper, and afterwards apprenticed to a See also:ship-See also:chandler. His See also:taste for See also:mathematics See also:early See also:developed itself; and he acquired Latin that he might study See also:Newton's Principia. As clerk (1795) and then as See also:supercargo (1796, 1798, 1799) he made four See also:long voyages; and, being an excellent navigator, he afterwards (1802) commanded a See also:vessel, instructing his crews in lunar and other observations. He edited two See also:editions of See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton See also:Moore's See also:Navigation, and in 1802 published a valuable See also:work, New American See also:Practical Navigator, founded on the earlier See also:treatise by Moore. In 1804 he became See also:president of a Salem See also:insurance See also:company. In the midst of his active career he undertook a See also:translation of the Mecanique See also:celeste of P. S. See also:Laplace, with valuable annotations (vol. i., 1829). He was offered, but declined, the professorship of mathematics and See also:astronomy at Harvard. Subsequently he became president of the See also:Mechanics' See also:Institute in-See also:Boston, and also of the American See also:Academy of Arts
and Sciences. He died at Boston on the 16th of See also:March 1838.
A See also:life of Bowditch was written by his son Nathaniel See also:Ingersoll Bowditch (1805—1861), and was prefixed to the fou2th See also:volume (1839) of the translation of Laplace. In 1865 this was elaborated into a See also:separate See also:biography by another son, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808-1892), a famous Boston physician.
End of Article: BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL (1773-1838)
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