Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers (eBook)

How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life

Tamara Plakins Thornton (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
416 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2694-9 (ISBN)

Autor

Tamara Plakins Thornton is professor of history at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 19 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: Actuaries • American Academy of Arts and Sciences • American carrying trade • American Revolution • Astronomy at Harvard • Astronomy in the early republic • Benjamin Pierce • Blank forms • Bookkeeping in early America • Boston Athenaeum • Boston Brahmins • Bowditch family • Caroline Plummer • Celestial Navigation • Charitable trusts • Charles Babbage • Comets in America • Comets, meteors, and eclipses in America • Commercial Insurance Company • Daniel Appleton White • Dudley Leavitt Pickman • East India Marine Society • East India trade • Ebenezer Francis • Eclipses in America • Edmund Blunt • Edward Everett • Elias Hasket Derby • Enlightenment science • Essex Bank of Salem • Essex Fire and Marine Insurance Company • Family trusts • Federalism in Massachusetts • Foreign members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh • Foreign members of the Royal Society of London • Francis Calley Gray • Gentility in colonial America • George Baron • George Ticknor • Harvard corporation • Harvard honorary degrees • Harvard library • Harvard University history • Henry Ingersoll Bowditch • Henry Pickering • history of boston • history of capitalism • History of celestial navigation • History of corporations • History of elites in America • History of Harvard • History of insurance • History of Life insurance • History of Marine insurance • History of office technologies • History of quantitative science • History of science in America • History of trust funds • Hollis chair of mathematics and natural philosophy • Ingersoll family • Israel Thorndike • John Hamilton Moore • John Pickering • John Thornton Kirkland • Jonathan Ingersoll • Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch • Joseph Story • Learned societies in the early republic • Library cataloging systems • longitude • Marine insurance • Maritime History • Mary Ingersoll Bowditch • Mary Somerville • Mascarene Islands • Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company • Massachusetts privateers • Mathematics at Harvard • Mathematics in the early republic • Meteors in America • Mortgage loans • napoleonic wars • Nathaniel Bowditch • Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch • navigation tables • New American Practical Navigator • Newburyport, Massachusetts • new england history • Office paperwork organization • Pierre Simon de Laplace • Privateers in the American Revolution • Privateers in the Napoleonic Wars • Privateers in the War of 1812 • Robert Adrain • Rumford Medal • Salem Athenaeum • Salem, Massachusetts • Salem Philosophical Library • Samuel Mcintire • Simon Forrester • Social elites in the American republic • Social hierarchy in colonial America • Social hierarchy in the early republic • Testamentary trusts • Trading voyages to Madeira • Trading voyages to Manila • Trading voyages to Spain • Trading voyages to Sumatra • Trust companies • Voyages to Ile de Bourbon • Voyages to Reunion • War of 1812 • War of 1812 in Salem • William Bentley • William Ingersoll Bowditch • William Shaw Smith
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2694-2 / 1469626942
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2694-9 / 9781469626949