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Name: Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
Author: Jean Lee Latham

📘 Carry on, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

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."

First publish date: 2016

Authors: Jean Lee Latham

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