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Автор: Thornton, Professor Tamara Plakins
Название: Nathaniel bowditch and the power of numbers
ISBN: 9781469663937
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Проза: документальная

История Америк

Военная история

Торгово-промышленная деятельность и управление

История естественных наук

ISBN-10: 1469663937
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 416
Вес: 0.67 кг.
Дата издания: 28.02.2021
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 19 halftones
Размер: 23.55 x 16.61 x 2.49 cm
Ключевые слова: Biography & True Stories,Business & management,History of science,History of the Americas,Military history, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business,HISTORY / Military / Naval,HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Подзаголовок: How a nineteenth-century man of business, science, and the sea changed american life
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a meteor in the hemisphere. Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming American life more broadly. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch operated and represented some of New Englands most powerful institutions-from financial corporations to Harvard College-as clockwork mechanisms. By examining Bowditchs pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thorntons biography sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American science, and social elites in the early republic.

Fleshing out the multiple careers of Nathaniel Bowditch, this book is at once a lively biography, a window into the birth of bureaucracy, and a portrait of patrician life, giving us a broader, more-nuanced understanding of how powerful capitalists operated during this era and how the emerging quantitative sciences shaped the modern experience.
Дополнительное описание: History of the Americas|Biography and non-fiction prose|History of science|Business and Management|Military history

Nathaniel bowditch and the power of numbers, Thornton, Professor Tamara Plakins