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010 $a 2015032057
020 $a9781469626932$qhardcover$qalkaline paper
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100 1 $aThornton, Tamara Plakins,$d1957-$eauthor.
245 10 $aNathaniel Bowditch and the power of numbers :$bhow a nineteenth-century man of business, science, and the sea changed American life /$cTamara Plakins Thornton.
264 1 $aChapel Hill :$bThe University of North Carolina Press,$c[2016]
300 $axiv, 402 pages ;$c25 cm
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a mathematician, astronomer, and insurance executive--and a major agent of Enlightenment-era change ... took his personal work habits and blended them with the certainty and predictability of the science that he studied, creating something completely new for his time: the impersonal bureaucracy. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch shaped some of New England's most powerful institutions, from financial corporations to Harvard College, into clockwork mechanisms. He ran his insurance company with rule-bound regularity, implementing systematic and novel paperwork procedures, methodical bookkeeping practices, and standardized filing systems, helping to usher in a new era of intellectual history"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aBowditch, Nathaniel,$d1773-1838.
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