How Long to Read Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers

How Long Does it Take to Read Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 8 minutes to read Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers by Tamara Plakins Thornton

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming American life more broadly. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch operated and represented some of New England's most powerful institutions—from financial corporations to Harvard College—as clockwork mechanisms. By examining Bowditch's pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thornton's biography sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American science, and social elites in the early republic. Fleshing out the multiple careers of Nathaniel Bowditch, this book is at once a lively biography, a window into the birth of bureaucracy, and a portrait of patrician life, giving us a broader, more-nuanced understanding of how powerful capitalists operated during this era and how the emerging quantitative sciences shaped the modern experience.

How long is Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers?

Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers by Tamara Plakins Thornton is 417 pages long, and a total of 107,169 words.

This makes it 141% the length of the average book. It also has 131% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 45 minutes to read Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers aloud.

What Reading Level is Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers?

Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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