Ben Franklin's World 140 Nathaniel Bowditch: 19th-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea
Jun 27, 2017
54:58
Nathaniel Bowditch worked as a navigator, mathematician, astronomer, and business innovator. Over the course of his lifetime, his fellow Americans hailed him as the “American Sir Isaac Newton.”
Tamara Thornton, a professor of history at the University of Buffalo and author of Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed America, leads us on a detailed exploration of the life of Nathaniel Bowditch.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/140
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