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Author : Tamara Plakins Thornton
Release : 2021
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Book Synopsis Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers by : Tamara Plakins Thornton
Download or read book Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers written by Tamara Plakins Thornton. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tamara Plakins Thornton
Release : 2016-02-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers by : Tamara Plakins Thornton
Download or read book Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers written by Tamara Plakins Thornton. This book was released on 2016-02-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 England's most powerful institutions—from financial corporations to Harvard College—as clockwork mechanisms. By examining Bowditch's pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thornton's 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.
Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
Release : 1912
Genre : Nautical astronomy
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Book Synopsis American Practical Navigator by : Nathaniel Bowditch
Download or read book American Practical Navigator written by Nathaniel Bowditch. This book was released on 1912. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Chaney
Release : 2017-08-09
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Runaway by : Anthony Chaney
Download or read book Runaway written by Anthony Chaney. This book was released on 2017-08-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was among the group of mathematicians, engineers, and social scientists who laid the theoretical foundations of the information age. In Palo Alto in 1956, he introduced the double-bind theory of schizophrenia. By the sixties, he was in Hawaii studying dolphin communication. Bateson's discipline hopping made established experts wary, but he found an audience open to his ideas in a generation of rebellious youth. To a gathering of counterculturalists and revolutionaries in 1967 London, Bateson was the first to warn of a "greenhouse effect" that could lead to runaway climate change. Blending intellectual biography with an ambitious reappraisal of the 1960s, Anthony Chaney uses Bateson's life and work to explore the idea that a postmodern ecological consciousness is the true legacy of the decade. Surrounded by voices calling for liberation of all kinds, Bateson spoke of limitation and dependence. But he also offered an affirming new picture of human beings and their place in the world—as ecologies knit together in a fabric of meaning that, said Bateson, "we might as well call Mind."
Author : David Lindsay Roberts
Release : 2019-10-08
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Synopsis Republic of Numbers by : David Lindsay Roberts
Download or read book Republic of Numbers written by David Lindsay Roberts. This book was released on 2019-10-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republic of Numbers will appeal to anyone who is interested in learning how mathematics has intertwined with American history.
