Charles Pickering Bowditch (1842–1921) was an American mathematician, astronomer, and navigator. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard University in 1863. He was a professor of mathematics at Harvard from 1869 to 1883, and then became the director of the Harvard College Observatory. Bowditch is best known for his work on navigation, which included the publication of the New American Practical Navigator in 1802. This book, which is still in use today, is considered to be the most comprehensive and authoritative work on navigation ever published. He also wrote several other books on navigation, including The American Practical Navigator (1866) and The American Coast Pilot (1867). Bowditch was also an accomplished astronomer, and his work on the orbits of comets and asteroids was highly regarded. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1891.
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