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Bowditch

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Bow·ditch  (boudch), Nathaniel 1773-1838.
American mathematician and astronomer noted for his works concerning navigation.
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Noun1.BowditchBowditch - United States mathematician and astronomer noted for his works on navigation (1773-1838)
Nathaniel Bowditch
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That, now, is what old Bowditch in his Epitome calls the zodiac, and what my almanack below calls ditto.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness; and who offers to ship with the phaedon instead of Bowditch in his head.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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