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Whenever I meet in Laplace with the words 'Thus it plainly appears', I am sure that hours and perhaps days, of hard study will alone enable me to discover how it plainly appears.

Nathaniel Bowditch

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It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.
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Nathaniel Bowditch

Nathaniel Bowditch
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Born: March 26, 1773
Died: March 16, 1838 (aged 64)
Bio: Nathaniel Bowditch was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation.
Known for:
  1. Bowditch's American Practical Navigator (1802)
  2. The Complete Nautical Dictionary
  3. Suffolk Surnames Volume

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