Young, Alexander. The Varieties of Human Greatness : A Discourse on the Life and Character of the Hon. Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D., F.R.S., delivered in The Church on Church Green, March 25, 1838. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1838. First Edition. [11468]
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A discourse on the text I Chronicles 29:12, "In thine hand, O Lord, is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all."
The life and character of Bowditch begins on p. 18.
Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), b. Salem, MA; d. Boston, MA. He was a self-taught mathematician, navigator, and businessman, considered by many to have been the founder of modern maritime navigation. Bowditch declined several professorships in American universities, and was an honorary member of several foreign academies, including the Royal Society. For the last nine years of his life he was president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
