 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1898 - 976 pages
...on their skill as observers with the sextant. One of the sister ships to the OTIC of which Bowditeh was supercargo was visited at Genoa by a European...Such crews were only to be found on American ships in the palmy days of democracy. All we;e cousins or neighbors and each had a "venture" in the voyage.... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1898 - 940 pages
...which Bowditch was supercargo was visited at Genoa by a European astronomer of note (Baron de /ach), who found that the latest methods of working lunar...Such crews were only to be found on American ships in the palmy days of democracy. All we:e cousins or neighbors and each had a "venture7' in the voyage.... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1898 - 942 pages
...found that the latest methods of working lunar distances to determine the longitude were known to :ill on board, sailors as well as officers. His bewilderment...Such crews were only to be found on American ships in the palmy days of democracy. All we:e cousins or neighbors and each had a "venture" in the voyage.... | |
 | 1838 - 392 pages
...that the Americans knew nothing about working lunar observations. Captain Prince told him that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take...all practical purposes, as Sir Isaac Newton himself, were he alive. Murray was perfectly astounded at this, and actually went down to the landing-place,... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1853 - 1016 pages
...to find his way, in the face of a north-east monsoon, by mere dead reckoning, replied, " that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take...all practical purposes, as Sir Isaac Newton himself, were he alive." During this conversation, Dr. Bowditch sat, " as modest as a maid, saying not a word,... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1882 - 592 pages
...to find his way in the face of a north-east monsoon, by mere dead reckoning, he replied "that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take...all practical purposes as Sir Isaac Newton himself, were he alive." To be sure, this crew had supercargo Nathaniel Bowditch for a teacher. But it would... | |
 | 1838 - 892 pages
...that the Americans knew nothing about working lunar observations. Captain Prince told him that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take...all practical purposes, as Sir Isaac Newton himself, were he alive. Murray was perfectly astounded at this, and actually went down to the landing-place,... | |
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Prince told him that he had a crew of twelve men, every one of whom could take and work a lunar observation as well, for all practical purposes, as Sir Isaac Newton himself, were he alive. 
