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A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
Author : Jean Lee Latham
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780618250745
A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
Author : Carole Pelttari
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 1995-03-01
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : 9781586091422
A study guide to accompany the reading of Carry on, Mr. Bowditch in the classroom featuring suggested discussion questions, vocabulary work, work sheets, related Bible passages and further readings.
Author : George Alfred Henty
Publisher : London : Blackie
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth George Speare
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 1961
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9780808539001
A young Jewish rebel is filled with hatred for the Romans and a desire to avenge his parents' deaths until Jesus of Nazareth teaches him love and understanding of others. A Newbery Medal book.
Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher :
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Nautical astronomy
ISBN :
Author : Tamara Plakins Thornton
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2016-02-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1469626942
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming American life more broadly. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch operated and represented some of New England's most powerful institutions—from financial corporations to Harvard College—as clockwork mechanisms. By examining Bowditch's pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thornton's biography sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American science, and social elites in the early republic. Fleshing out the multiple careers of Nathaniel Bowditch, this book is at once a lively biography, a window into the birth of bureaucracy, and a portrait of patrician life, giving us a broader, more-nuanced understanding of how powerful capitalists operated during this era and how the emerging quantitative sciences shaped the modern experience.
Author : Lori Wick
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0736931929
Victoria "Smokey" Simmons stands silently on deck as her father's body is lowered into the Atlantic, asking God for the strength she will need to command the Aramis alone. Not wanting to remain at sea forever, Smokey dreams of the time when she can trade her life aboard ship for a home and family. When she meets another captain, Dallas Knight, Smokey believes her dream will finally come true. But circumstances beyond their control and the schemes of a cunning pirate threaten to destroy this young couple's hope for the future. Wings of the Morning carries readers on a tender journey of love in which painful events become lasting blessings in the Father's care.
Author : Virginia Sorensen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152047184
The winner of the 1956 Newbery Medal is reissued. When Marly's father comes back from the war a different man, the family moves to Grandma's old house on Maple Hill, where miracles begin to happen. Illustrations.
Author : Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze" by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Children's stories, American
ISBN :
Newbery Awards.