Nathaniel Bowditch
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Nathaniel Bowditch was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. He is often credited as the founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practic
Bowditch is often credited as the founder of modern maritime navigation.
Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838), last and unfinished painting by Gilbert Stuart.
Dedication page by Nathaniel Bowditch in "Mécanique céleste"
Portrait of Mary Bowditch in Volume 1 of Pierre-Simon Laplace's "Mécanique céleste" (1829), translated by Nathaniel Bowditch
Lissajous curve
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A Lissajous curve, also known as Lissajous figure or Bowditch curve, is the graph of a system of parametric equations
Nathaniel Bowditch
…publications followed, including a study of a meteor explosion (1807), three papers on the orbits of comets (1815, 1818, 1820) and a study of the Lissajous figures created by the motion of a pendulum suspended from two points (1815). In 1816, Harvard awarded Nathaniel Bowditch an honorary Doctor of Laws…
An approximate Lissajous curve, made by releasing sand from a container at the end of a Blackburn pendulum
Lissajous figure on an oscilloscope, displaying a 1:3 relationship between the frequencies of the vertical and horizontal sinusoidal inputs, respectively. This particular Lissajous figure was adapted into the logo for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation