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02448aam a2200349 i 4500 001 1FB4FC786B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150817t20162016ncua b s001 0beng c 010 $a 2015032057 020 $a 1469626934 020 $a 9781469626932 035 $a (OCoLC)919252679 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c STF $d NOC $d DLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d CDX $d BDX $d EUW $d IMD $d COO $d PUL $d GK8 $d OCLCO $d FM0 $d ZCU $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a QB36 B7 T55 2016 100 1 $a Thornton, Tamara Plakins, $d 1957- $e author. 245 10 $a Nathaniel Bowditch and the power of numbers : $b how a nineteenth-century man of business, science, and the sea changed American life / $c Tamara Plakins Thornton. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xiv, 402 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-373) and index. 505 0 $a Born into Salem -- Parts unknown -- the Navigator -- Gentleman actuary -- Celestial events -- The prudent man -- The clockwork corporation -- Harvard and other imperfect mechanisms -- Apogee -- Final reckonings. 520 $a "Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a mathematician, astronomer, and insurance executive--and a major agent of Enlightenment-era change ... took his personal work habits and blended them with the certainty and predictability of the science that he studied, creating something completely new for his time: the impersonal bureaucracy. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch shaped some of New England's most powerful institutions, from financial corporations to Harvard College, into clockwork mechanisms. He ran his insurance company with rule-bound regularity, implementing systematic and novel paperwork procedures, methodical bookkeeping practices, and standardized filing systems, helping to usher in a new era of intellectual history"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Bowditch, Nathaniel, $d 1773-1838. 650 0 $a Astronomers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Mathematicians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Industrial organization $z United States $x History. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220706012910.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1FB4FC786B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search