Bowditch
[bou-dich]
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noun
Nathaniel,1773–1838, U.S. mathematician, astronomer, and navigator.
a handbook of navigation, American Practical Navigator, originally prepared by N. Bowditch and published since 1802 in a series of editions.
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Sam Kellers seen Halliday with the letter and told me after Bowditch had got it in his bag.
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Bowditch was an American, and is highly distinguished at home and abroad.
Table 20A in Bowditch gives the correction for mean refraction.
Lectures in NavigationErnest Gallaudet Draper
Let us work this same example in Bowditch by the other two methods.
Lectures in NavigationErnest Gallaudet Draper
With this angle and the known height of the light, enter Table 33 in Bowditch.
Lectures in NavigationErnest Gallaudet Draper