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Newcomb Simon:     more books (100)

A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy With Its Applications to the Determination and Reduction of Positions of the Fixed Stars [ 1906 ] by Simon Newcomb, 2009-08-10 Simon Newcomb, America's Unofficial Astronomer Royal by Bill Carter, Merri Sue Carter, 2006-01-19 Biographical memoir, Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909 (National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 1st Memoirs) by William Wallace Campbell, 1924 Side-Lights on Astronomy: and Kindred Fields of Popular Science (Classic Reprint) by Simon Newcomb, 2010-04-16 Simon Newcomb's Astronomy For Everybody Simon Newcomb's Astronomy for Everybody by Simon Newcomb, Robert H. Baker, 1942 Principles of Political Economy by Simon Newcomb, 2010-10-14 A Scientist's Voice in American Culture: Simon Newcomb and the Rhetoric of Scientific Method by Albert E. Moyer, 1992-09-23 Key to Newcomb's College Algebra by Simon Newcomb, 2010-02-22 Newcomb-Engelmann's Populäre Astronomie: Herausgegeben Von Dr. H. C. Vogel, Mit Dem Bildness W. Herschels, 1 Photographischen Tafel Und 196 Holzschnitten (German Edition) by Simon Newcomb, Rudolph Engelmann, 2010-03-01 His Wisdom The Defender: A Story (1900) by Simon Newcomb, 2010-09-10 Astronomy for students and general readers by Simon Newcomb, Edward Singleton Holden, 2010-07-30 Reports On Observations of the Total Solar Eclipse of December 22, 1870: Conducted Under the Direction of Rear Admiral B.F. Sands, U.S.N., Superintendent ... by Simon Newcomb, John Robie Eastman, 2010-03-08 Astronomy For Everybody: A Popular Exposition Of The Wonders Of The Heavens by Simon Newcomb, 2007-07-25

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1. Simon Newcomb
   Simon Newcomb, 18351909. Simon Newcomb was one of America's earliest (but not complete) converts to the Marginalist Revolution. But he was neither an economist by training nor vocation.  
   http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/newcomb.htm
   
   Extractions: Simon Newcomb was one of America's earliest (but not complete) converts to the Marginalist Revolution . But he was neither an economist by training nor vocation. Rather, Newcomb was a renowned Johns Hopkins mathematician, physicist and astronomer who had risen from rags to intellectual riches. Nonetheless, he was equipped to help economics along its mathematical track. Newcomb was also one of the main developers of the Quantity Theory of Money (before Fisher ) and was among the first economists to distinguish carefully between stocks and flows and, in doing so, provided the earliest clean statement of the theory of loanable funds On the whole, Newcomb was not necessarily a very nice person. He was the quintessential American apologist and a steadfast opponent of the Institutionalist school. He engaged Richard T. Ely in a particularly nasty Methodenstreit in the 1880s and 1890s, eventually being instrumental in securing the latter's departure from Johns Hopkins and the transformation of the American Economic Association into a wider professional organization.

2. Simon Newcomb
   Simon Newcomb. NEWCOMB, Simon, astronomer, born in Wallace, Nova Scotia, 12 March, 1835.  
   http://www.famousamericans.net/simonnewcomb
   
   Extractions: Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. 6 vols. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 was the "most-quoted" biographical source for 19th and early 20th America. Appleton's, due to its age, reflects the bias and prejudice of late 19th Century America. It is also estimated that 100 to 200 of the 35,000 biographies are entirely fictitious. Additionally, the OCR technology used to transfer the text to the web was, at best, only a 99% accurate. We rely on volunteers to edit and update these historic biographies on a continual basis. If you are interested in editing and updating this biography please Click Here Virtual American Biographies Over 30,000 personalities with thousands of 19th Century illustrations, signatures, and exceptional life stories. Virtualology.com welcomes editing and additions to the biographies. To become this site's editor or a contributor Click Here or e-mail Virtualology here A B C ... Z

3. Newcomb
   Simon Newcomb. Orbits and gravitation. Honours awarded to Simon Newcomb (Clicka link below for the full list of mathematicians honoured in this way).  
   http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newcomb.html
   
   Extractions: Simon Newcomb had no formal education but, in about 1854 after he joined his father who had moved to Maryland USA, he began to study mathematics in the libraries at Washington. He obtained a job (1857) in the American Nautical Almanac Office (in Cambridge, Mass. at that time). He studied at Harvard graduating in 1858. In 1861 Newcomb was appointed to the Naval Observatory at Washington. He spent the next10 years determining the positions of celestial objects using various telescopes including a 26-inch refractor telescope which had just been built. In 1877 Newcomb became director of the American Nautical Almanac Office (by this time in Washington). He then started his most important work which, in his own words, gave ... a systematic determination of the constants of astronomy from the best existing data, a reinvestigation of the theories of the celestial motions, and the preparation of tables, formulae, and precepts for the construction of ephemerides, and for other applications of the same results. The reason he undertook this work was because of the ... confusion which pervaded the whole system of exact astronomy, arising from the diversity of the fundamental data made use of by the astronomers of foreign countries and various institutions in their work.

4. ESVA Archives: Newcomb Simon A4
   newcomb simon A4 Simon Newcomb old age; fullface; moustche and beard; eyeglasses;sitting at a desk Credit AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, WF Meggers  
   http://www.aip.org/history/esva/html/newcomb_simon_a4.html

5. WIEM: Newcomb Simon
   newcomb simon (18351909), amerykanski astronom. Astronomia, Stany Zjednoczonenewcomb simon (1835-1909), widok strony znajdz podobne pokaz powiazane.  
   http://wiem.onet.pl/wiem/00b790.html
   
   Extractions: poka¿ powi±zane Newcomb Simon (1835-1909), amerykañski astronom. W latach 1861-1877 profesor akademii morskiej w Waszyngtonie, 1877-1897 dyrektor biura amerykañskiego rocznika astronomicznego. Zebra³ wyniki nowo¿ytnych obserwacji astronomicznych i na ich podstawie wyznaczy³ wiele sta³ych astronomicznych opisuj±cych wielko¶æ aberracji, nutacji, precesji oraz szczegó³y ruchu planet, co sta³o siê w 1896 podstaw± opracowywanych w wielu krajach roczników astronomicznych. Zobacz równie¿ Aberracja ¶wiat³a Nutacja Precesja Odwied¼ w Internecie Astronomia zobacz wszystkie serwisy do góry Encyklopedia zosta³a opracowana na podstawie Popularnej Encyklopedii Powszechnej Wydawnictwa Fogra

6. Ursan Kirjasto - Kirjaluettelo
   Ursan kirjaston kirjaluettelo. newcomb simon. 5 nimekettä (15). Nro, Tekijä,Nimi, Luokka. 1/60, newcomb simon, Tähtitiede, 1 Tähtitieteen yleisteokset.  
   http://www.ursa.fi/ursa/kirjasto/luettelo/lista.phtml?tekija=Newcomb Simon

7. Simon Newcomb
   Simon Newcomb. A branch of this family eventually moved to Nova Scotia,from whom the distinguished astronomer Simon Newcomb descended.  
   http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/3266/s1newc.htm
   
   Extractions: Born: 1665, Kittery, York County, Maine Died: 20 Jan 1744, Lebanon, CT Parents: Andrew Newcomb and Sarah (Newcomb) Sibling(s): Simeon Newcomb (b. 1662, rem. to Truro, MA), Andrew (b. 1664, d. BEF Jun 1687), Thomas (b. 1668, m. Elizabeth Cook 1693), Sarah (b. 1670, m. Joshua Conant 1691), Mary or Mercy (b. 1672, m. Thomas Lambert 4 Oct 1694), and Peter (b. 1674, m. Mercy Smith 1699 and mov. to Sandwich, MA). Married: Deborah (Newcomb) 1687 in Kittery, York County, Maine Children: Deacon John Newcomb, b. 1688 Thomas Newcomb, b. 1691 in Edgartown, Dukes Co, MA, d. 1761 in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., NY and is buried in Washington Hollow Cemetery, Dutchess Co., NY. Occupation listed as merchant and cordwainer. He married (first) Eunice Manning, b. 1685, d. 7 Dec 1715, on 28 Oct 1712 in Nantucket. Married (second) Judith Woodworth, b. 1699, 17 Jan 1720 in Lebanon, CT. Married (third) Mary Tilton Hezekiah Newcomb, b. 1693 Obadiah Newcomb (an ancestor to President George Bush) b. 1695 in Edgartown, Dukes Co., MA, died 4 May 1761 in Hebron, Tolland Co., CT, buried at Hebron Farm. Married (first) Abigail Newcomb, b. 1693, d. 9 May 1757, in 1720. Married (second) Mary Post, b. 1695, on 22 Jun 1758 Deborah Newcomb, b. 15 Jun 1697 in Edgartown, MA, died in Kent, Litchfield Co., CT. Married Capt. Timothy Hatch, b. 19 Oct 1695, d. 30 Mar 1767, in 1716 in Lebanon, CT

8. Simon Newcomb
   Simon Newcomb. Born about 1665, Kittery, (York County), ME. Capt. Andrew Newcomb Lt Andrew Newcomb Simon Newcomb Sarah.  
   http://www.newcomb-family.org/sn1.htm
   
   Extractions: Born: about 1665, Kittery, (York County), ME Died: January 20, 1744(5)at Lebanon, CN Sibling(s): Simeon Newcomb, Andrew Newcomb, Thomas Newcomb, Sarah Newcomb (Conant)(Eldredge), Mary [Mercy] Newcomb (Lumbert), Peter Newcomb, Anna Newcomb (Mayhew),Elizabeth Newcomb (Atkins), Joseph Newcomb, Emlen [Emerline] Newcomb (Atkins), Tabitha Newcomb (Ray), Hannah Newcomb (Dumary), Zerviah Newcomb (Bearse), Mary Newcomb (Pease) Married: about 1687 to Deborah at Edgartown, MA Children: John Newcomb, Thomas Newcomb, Hezekiah Newcomb Obadiah Newcomb , Deborah Newcomb (Hatch), Sarah Newcomb (Nye), Benjamin Newcomb, Elizabeth Newcomb (Wright), Simon Newcomb, Thomas Newcomb Capt. Andrew Newcomb Lt Andrew Newcomb

9. Simon Newcomb
   Simon Newcomb. Simon Newcomb was one of the great scientists of the19th century. He was a giant in the field of celestial mechanics  
   http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~adh/newcomb/
   
   Extractions: Simon Newcomb was one of the great scientists of the 19th century. He was a giant in the field of celestial mechanics, and his work on the orbital motion of the planets of the Solar System was the cornerstone of the nautical and astronomical almanacs of the United States and Great Britain until as recently as 1984. Albert Einstein acknowledged the importance of Newcomb's work in the development of his own theory of relativity. Newcomb was also a fascinating individual, almost entirely self-taught in mathematics and astronomy, who rose to the very top of the astronomical community in the United States in the latter years of the 19th century. His story is related in his autobiography, Reminiscences of an Astronomer , published in 1903 and now sadly out of print. It reveals Newcomb as a man of great humility combined with an impish sense of humour. I have loved this book ever since I first chanced to find a copy hidden in a dusty corner of the library of the University of Liverpool. Here are some excerpts: On seeking a wife My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men. His method of seeking a wife was so far unique that it may not be devoid of interest ...

10. Simon Newcomb
    Simon Newcomb (18351909). Newcomb was born in Wallace, Nova Scotia,and was apprenticed to a quack doctor at the age of 16. Apart  
    http://collections.ic.gc.ca/universe/newcomb.html
    
    Extractions: Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) Newcomb was born in Wallace, Nova Scotia, and was apprenticed to a quack doctor at the age of 16. Apart from the two or three years he spent as an apprentice, Newcomb received little or no formal education. At 16 he ran away to Maryland in the US, where he became a country schoolmaster. Deciding that he wanted to work with mathematics, he enrolled and received his degree from the Lawrence science school of Harvard University in 1858. In 1861, Newcomb worked at the Naval Observatory at Washington, DC, and in the 16 years he was there he worked at determining the position of celestial bodies. When, in 1877 he was put in charge of the American Nautical Almanac office, he began calculating the motions of the bodies in the solar system. This work was to prove outstandingly accurate, and was used as a daily reference around the world for over 50 years. Newcomb's greatest contribution was to establish with Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, a universal standard system of astronomical constants. This system, which was mostly Newcomb's is still in practical use today, as are his tables of data concerning various celestial bodies. Back

11. Simon Newcomb
    Simon Newcomb. This is an unofficial Simon Newcomb links page, composedby Rev. Source Newcomb, Simon. Outlook for the Flying Machine.  
    http://canopus.saao.ac.za/~wpk/tov1882/newcomb.html
    
    Extractions: This is an unofficial Simon Newcomb links page, composed by Rev. James F. Ross and sent to me via e-mail in 1998. Taught school in Salem, walked to Washington, connection with Smithsonian, then Nautical Almanac office according to http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7Ehistory/Mathematicians/Newcomb.html at that time in Cambridge, MA; then Harvard. Notes on overseas trips. After the induction into the Hall of Fame, but most probably in same year (1936?). The following addresses gathered by Paul at the Wallace and Area museum; some comments by JFR: http://www.cis.vt.edu/CSSS/staff/moyer_publications.html Nothing in addition to those below http://www.aas.org/~had/bib.html quoted below http://www.obliquity.com/newcomb/wife.html http://users.aol.com/physics314/pquotes.html about airplanes http://www.aas.org/~had/meeting.html referred to below http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newcomb.html http://english.ttu.edu/courses/5343/newcomb.htm http://www.obliquity.com/newcomb/ http://gsb-www.uchicago.edu/fac/alpha/lamont/newcomb.html This is excellent - many links.

12. Simon Newcomb
    Simon Newcomb. Descendancy Chart. 1. Simon Newcomb (b.1665Kittery,YorkCounty,Maine;d.1744-Lebanon,New London Cty,Connecticut) sp  
    http://www.expage.com/kilburn17

13. Horoscope Of Simon Newcomb
    Simon Newcomb. Back. This Home Page hosted by CWNet,Communications World Network spidertrap.  
    http://users.cwnet.com/sidereal/wsn/thehall/newcomb.htm

14. Simon Newcomb - Acapedia - Free Knowledge, For All
    acapedia.org home acapedia feedback. Friends of Acapedia Simon Newcomb. FromWikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (There is currently no text in this page).  
    http://acapedia.org/aca/Simon_Newcomb

15. Encyclopædia Britannica
    Encyclopædia Britannica. newcomb, simon. Encyclopædia Britannica Article  
    http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=56965

16. NEWCOMB, SIMON
    after the union of Scotland and England  
    http://9.1911encyclopedia.org/N/NE/NEWCOMB_SIMON.htm
    
    Extractions: Among educational establishments the chief are the colleges of medicine and of physical science of the university of Durham; the first granting degrees in medicine and surgery; the second, with which the school of art is incorporated, degrees in science and literature. The college of science, or Armstrong College as it is called in commemoration of the first Lord Armstrong, was founded in 1871; the north-east wing was opened in I888; Newcastle is well supplied with public parks and recreation grounds. To the N. of the city is the Castle Leazes ornamental park of ~5 acres, and beyond this the Town Moor and racecourse, an extensive common, the survival of the pasture land of the township. Eastward from Town Moor is Brandling Park, and westward Nun’s Moor. The picturesque grounds of Armstrong Park N.E. of the city extend to about 50 acres, the larger half of which was presented by Sir W. G. Armstrong, who also presented the beautifully wooded grounds of Jesmond Dène. Elswick Park in the south-west of the city, extending to 83/4 acres, includes Elswick Hall. There are several others. Jesmond, N.E. of the city, is the chief residential suburb. It takes name from “ Jesus Mount,” and was formerly a place of pilgrimage, possessing a hospital dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. on. Elswick is the name of the western part of the borough of Newcastle. The borough returns two members to parliament. It is the largest undivided parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. The city is governed by a lord mayor (the title was conferred in 1906), 19 aldermen and 57 coundillors. Area, 8453 acres.

17. RASC SIMON NEWCOMB AWARD
    The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada sponsors the simon newcomb award for astronomical writing. The simon newcomb Award (revised 1998)  
    http://www.rasc.ca/award/newcomb.html
    
    Extractions: Page Last Updated: 2001 Oct 17 The Simon Newcomb Award is intended to encourage members of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada to write on the topic of astronomy for the Society or the general public, and to recognise the best published works through an annual award. [Simon Newcomb, Photo courtesy of the Archives , California Institute of Technology] The award is named in honour of the astronomer Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) who was born in Nova Scotia and later served for twenty years as Superintendent of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac Office at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington. The award was created in 1978 by the National Council of the RASC on the initiative of the RASC Halifax Centre. Any member of the Society is eligible for the award. Nominations may be submitted by another member, a group of members, or an RASC centre. An eligible entry should be a recently-published piece of writing with an astronomical theme. This could be one of: a book or a portion of a book; an article in the Journal of the RASC, a centre newsletter, or another RASC publication; an article in a commercially-published magazine; and so on. A series of articles or a history of exemplary writing would also be considered eligible. The Awards Committee will judge nominations according to several criteria, including: originality, literary merit, scientific accuracy, educational value, and promotion of the Society's objectives. The Committee is not bound to make an award in a given year if the nominated works do not meet a suitable combination of these criteria.

18. The1882 Transit Of Venus: Observations From Wellington, South Africa.
    simon newcomb's expedition to Wellington, South Africa.  
    http://canopus.saao.ac.za/~wpk/tov1882/tovwell.html
    
    Extractions: Mary Lyon During the late nineteenth century Rev. Andrew Murray , the well-known Dutch Reformed minister in Wellington, identified the need for a higher educational institution for girls in South Africa. While on holiday in the Murray's seaside cottage, "Patmos" in Kalk Bay, he was reading a copy of Hitchcock's Memoir of Mary Lyon , founder of the Mount Holyoke Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA. He therefore wrote to the principal (a copy of this letter is displayed in the Wellington museum today) asking for one teacher to start a similar school in Wellington, modeled on the pioneering work she did in the field of Christian education for girls in America. Soon afterwards he received an answer saying they could in fact send two teachers and on Monday 19 January 1874 the "Huguenot Seminary for girls" opened with 40 boarders in "White House" and 14 in the village, with Miss (later Dr) Abbie Park Ferguson and Miss (later Dr) Anna E. Bliss at the helm. Miss Ferguson was always interested in astronomy with "a knowledge of a keen amateur, quite sufficient to infect others with her enthusiasm, and to give them the knowledge they needed to read books intelligently". From the start she offered an astronomy class at the Seminary and being a personal friend of Dr (later Sir) David Gill, Astronomer Royal at the Cape, he often visited Wellington and gave lectures to the class. In 1881 the

19. Newcomb
    Biography of simon newcomb (18351909) simon newcomb. Born 12 March 1835 in Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada  
    http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newcomb.html
    
    Extractions: Simon Newcomb had no formal education but, in about 1854 after he joined his father who had moved to Maryland USA, he began to study mathematics in the libraries at Washington. He obtained a job (1857) in the American Nautical Almanac Office (in Cambridge, Mass. at that time). He studied at Harvard graduating in 1858. In 1861 Newcomb was appointed to the Naval Observatory at Washington. He spent the next10 years determining the positions of celestial objects using various telescopes including a 26-inch refractor telescope which had just been built. In 1877 Newcomb became director of the American Nautical Almanac Office (by this time in Washington). He then started his most important work which, in his own words, gave ... a systematic determination of the constants of astronomy from the best existing data, a reinvestigation of the theories of the celestial motions, and the preparation of tables, formulae, and precepts for the construction of ephemerides, and for other applications of the same results. The reason he undertook this work was because of the ... confusion which pervaded the whole system of exact astronomy, arising from the diversity of the fundamental data made use of by the astronomers of foreign countries and various institutions in their work.

20. References For Newcomb
    References for simon newcomb. Books AE Moyer, A scientist's voice in American culture simon newcomb and the rhetoric of scientific method (Berkeley, 1992).  
    http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Newcomb.html
    
    Extractions: R C Archibald, Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909: Bibliography of His Life and Work, Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences R C Archibald, A semicentennial history of the American Mathematical Society 1888-1938 (New York, 1980), 124-139. E W Brown, Simon Newcomb, Observatory E W Brown, Simon Newcomb, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. E W Brown, Simon Newcomb (1835-1909), Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. J M Colaw, Biography. Simon Newcomb, Ph.D., LL.D., Amer. Math. Monthly S M Stigler, Simon Newcomb, Percy Daniell, and the history of robust estimation 1885-1920, Journal of the American Statistical Association S M Stigler, Simon Newcomb, Percy Daniell, and the history of robust estimation 1885-1920, in M G Kendall and R L Plackett (eds.), Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability II (London, 1977), 410-418.

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