Title: Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
Description: After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."
Subjects: Astronomers, Mathematicians, Navigation, Juvenile fiction, History, Seafaring life, Fiction
Places: Salem (Mass.)
People: Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)
Time periods: 18th century