Bowditch

Bowditch [bou-dich] Examples 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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Table 20A in Bowditch gives the correction for mean refraction.

Ernest Gallaudet Draper

Let us work this same example in Bowditch by the other two methods.

Ernest Gallaudet Draper

With this angle and the known height of the light, enter Table 33 in Bowditch.

Ernest Gallaudet Draper