Description: After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The Amer...
Synopsis After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."
Details
Publication Date:
2003-05-19
Illustrator:
John O'Hara Cosgrave II
Size
Length:
251 pages
Height:
8.3 in
Width:
5.5 in
Thickness:
0.8 in
Weight:
15.2 oz
Publisher's Note 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.