. On this day in 1773 – March 26th – self-educated American mathematician and astronomer Nathaniel Bowditch was born in Salem, Massachusetts.
His greatest contribution to science was his translation of Laplace’s five-volume Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics). It earned him an international reputation and was of great importance to the development of astronomy in the United States.
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