The New American Practical Navigator (Bowditch)
- Date
- 1802 · confidence high
- Place
- Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Nathaniel Bowditch
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A navigation manual that corrected over 8,000 errors in Moore's English manual and simplified the lunar distance method. It is still reprinted as The American Practical Navigator.
What it led to
- training of US merchant and naval navigators
- standardised nautical tables
- a reference manual still in use