Mark’s Reviews > Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life > Status Update

Mark: Back in my days in the U.S. Navy, every officer had a copy of Bowditch's The American Practical Navigator. Judging from recent news, the U.S. Navy could use a refresher on Bowditch.

It's funny, because I just read the chapter that covered that book!