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Simon Newcomb. Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian – American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hopkins University. Born in Nova Scotia, at the age of 19 Newcomb left an apprenticeship to join his father in ...
Copley Medal (1890) Simon Newcomb (born March 12, 1835, Wallace, N.S., Can.—died July 11, 1909, Washington, D.C., U.S.) was a Canadian-born American astronomer and mathematician who prepared ephemerides—tables of computed places of celestial bodies over a period of time—and tables of astronomical constants.
Feb 1, 2009 · Simon Newcomb, America’s first great astronomer. In the late 19th century, Newcomb determined the scale of the solar system with an accuracy unrivaled until decades after his death. In 1854, at age 19, Simon Newcomb stood outside the gates of the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, longing to go inside to see the telescopes and perhaps ...
May 17, 2018 · NEWCOMB, SIMON. ( b. Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada, 12 March 1835; d. Washington, D.C., 11 July 1909), astronomy. Simon Newcomb was the most honored American scientist of his time. During his lifetime his influence on professional astronomers and laymen was unparalleled, and it is still widely felt today. Having revolutionized the observational ...
Newcomb, Simon, Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science (Harper, New York, 1906). Newcomb, Simon, A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy with its Applications to the Determination and Reduction of Positions of the Fixed Stars (Macmillan, London, 1906; reprinted by Dover, NY, 1960).
Feb 1, 2007 · It captures well the sweep of astronomy from the Civil War to the early 1900s. The only other biography of Newcomb, Albert E. Moyer’s A Scientist’s Voice in American Culture: Simon Newcomb and the Rhetoric of Scientific Method (U. California Press, 1992), is for scholars interested in the sociology and philosophy of science. Thus the ...
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In 1854, at age 19, Simon Newcomb stood outside the gates of the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, long-ing to go inside to see the telescopes and perhaps even meet one of the astronomers. But he had no idea how he might be received; he was not a US citizen and the only knowledge of astronomy that he could claim was what he had been able to
