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	Simon Newcomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was an astronomer and mathematician.
		Newcomb managed to escape from the city during the ensuing rioting that led up to the formation of the Paris Commune and which engulfed the Paris Observatory.
		Newcomb died in Washington, DC of bladder cancer and was buried with military honours in Arlington National Cemetery with President William Howard Taft in attendance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simon_Newcomb (1017 words)

	Newcomb's Tables of the Sun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Newcomb's Tables were the basis for all ephemerides published from 1900 through 1983, including the annual almanacs of the U.S. Naval Observatory and the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
		Newcomb's work was no small accomplishment, especially considering that it predated the advent of digital computers by more than a half century.
		Newcomb developed similar formulas and tables for the other planets; those of the inner planets have proved to be the most accurate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Newcomb's_Tables_of_the_Sun (268 words)

	1884 Simon Newcomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Newcomb was born in the village of Wallace, Nova Scotia, March 12, 1835.
		Newcomb's chief labors were in the department of mathematical astronomy, and were directed toward the explanation of the observed movements of the heavenly bodies.
		Newcomb's interests extended beyond his special field, and he wrote with vigor and originality on finance and economics, and played a leading part in the general intellectual life of his time.
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		NEWCOMB, SIMON (1835-1909), American astronomer, was born in Wallace, Nova Scotia, on the 12th of March 1835.
		Among Newcomb's most notable achievements are his re-searches in connexion with the theory of the moon's motion.
		Newcomb showed that this belief was unfounded, and that as a matter of fact the moon was falling rapidly behind the tabular positions.
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	Simon Newcomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Newcomb was born in Wallace, Nova Scotia, and was apprenticed to a quack doctor at the age of 16.
		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.
		Newcomb's greatest contribution was to establish with Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, a universal standard system of astronomical constants.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /universe/newcomb.html (193 words)

	WESLEY NEWCOMB
		Wesley Newcomb was born October 20, 1808, in Renssaeler County, New York, the third son of Dr. Simon Newcomb and Sarah (Follett) Newcomb.
		Newcomb carried on an extensive correspondence with prominent men in the field of natural science and made a visit to London and Paris for the purpose of visiting leading conchologists of those countries.
		Newcomb returned to the Islands, and the doctor spent some weeks dredging the harbors at Honolulu and Hanalei, Kauai, for shells to add to his collection, which was later purchased by Cornell University.
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	Simon Newcomb
		Simon Newcomb returned to the west coast on 25 December 1945 and was routed to Norfolk via the Panama Canal, arriving on 21 January 1946.
		Simon Newcomb returned to Key West on18 December 1948 and operated from there until 10 April 1949 when she resumed her northern station.
		Simon Newcomb was decommissioned on 10 November 1949, struck from the Navy list on 31 January 1950, and sold to B. Industries, Brooklyn, N.Y., on 25 April for scrap.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s13/simon_newcomb.htm (524 words)

	Simon Newcomb Biography / Biography of Simon Newcomb Biography
		The American astronomer Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) was important in government scientific circles during the late 19th century.
		Simon Newcomb was born on March 12, 1835, at Wallace, Nova Scotia, the son of an itinerant New England schoolteacher.
		As early as 1867 Newcomb had suggested the desirability of accurately determining the velocity of light as a means of obtaining a reliable value for the radius of the earth's orbit.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-simon-newcomb (530 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Simon’s mother, also a teacher before her children were born, died when he was in his teens.
		Newcomb’s contact with Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and America’s foremost physicist, led to further connections with the scientific community.
		A comprehensive bibliography of over 500 publications by Simon Newcomb was compiled by Raymond Clare Archibald and issued as “Simon Newcomb, 1835—1909: bibliography of his life and work,” in National Academy of Sciences, Memoirs (Washington), 17 (1924): 19—69.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41083 (1311 words)

	Simon Newcomb
		In 1866 Newcomb had published an important memoir on the orbit of Neptune, which was followed in 1873 by a similar investigation of the orbit of Uranus.
		For some years after the publication of Peter Andreas Hansen's tables of the moon in 1857 it was generally believed that the theory of that body was at last complete, and that its motion could be predicted as accurately as that of the other heavenly bodies.
		From the motion of the satellites he finds that the mass of Uranus is 1/22600th of that of the sun, while for the planet Neptune he finds a mass equal to 1/19380th of the sun, agreeing with the value previously found by him from the perturbations of Uranus within 1/60th of its amount.
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	Newcomb Family History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Martin Newcome or Newcomb, the younger of the last-mentioned brothers, married Mary, daughter of Bryan Sandford or Samford, and was the father by her of Bryan, William, and several daughters.
		John Newcomb was the Sheriff of the City of Lincoln in 1421, and others of the name held the same office in the two succeeding centuries.
		Captain Joseph Newcomb, son of Lieutenant Andrew Newcomb, was born in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, in 1683.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Valley/3266/newcomb.htm (1845 words)

	Simon Newcomb Bibliography
		Newcomb, Simon, “On the Secular Variations of the Eccentricities and Perihelions of the Asteroids (4) Vesta, (9) Metis, (10) Hygiea, and (11) Parthenope,” Astronomical Journal 6, 65-67 (1859).
		Newcomb, Simon, “A Rude Attempt to Determine the Total Light of all the Stars,” Ap.J. Newcomb, Simon, “On the Statistical Relations among the Parallaxes and the Proper Motions of the Stars,” Astronomical Journal 22, 165 (1902).
		Newcomb, Simon, “The Optical and Psychological Principles Involved in the Interpretation of the So-Called Canals of Mars,” Ap.J. Newcomb, Simon, assisted by Frank E. Ross, Investigation of Inequalities in the Motion of the Moon Produced by the Action of the Planets (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC, 1907).
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /BruceMedalists/Newcomb/NewcombRefs.html (1219 words)

	Simon Newcomb, Rear Admiral, United States Navy
		Simon was the eldest son, and, after being educated by his father, taught for some time.
		Professor Newcomb has been intimately associated with the equipment of the Lick observatory of California, and examined the glass of the great telescope and its mounting before its acceptance by the trustees.
		Professor Newcomb refers to astronomy as his profession and to political economy as his recreation.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /simonnew.htm (675 words)

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		Simon Newcomb measured the time required for light to travel from his laboratory on the Potomac River to a mirror at the base of the Washington Monument and back, a total distance of about 7400 meters.
		Simon Newcomb's role in the assassination of President Garfield James Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881 and lingered until September 19, 1881 when he died.
		Newcomb's calculations of the orbits of the inner planets were used as the basis of the "Astronomical Almanac" and "Nautical Almanac" for most of the 20th century.
	www.saao.ac.za /~wpk/tov1882/newcomb.html (1975 words)

	Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909)
		A brilliant Canadian-born American mathematical astronomer whose 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 Britain until as recently as 1984; his accomplishments are all the more remarkable because he was almost entirely self-taught.
		On the subject of other life and intelligence in the Universe, Newcomb was non-committal, but he argued against the anthropocentric ideas of Alfred Russell Wallace and was prepared to accept the possibility that Earthlike conditions may not be essential for the development of life.
		In the debate over the existence of the Martian canals, Newcomb made a significant contribution with his experiments involving artificial disks and his conclusion that any linear markings were probably optical illusions.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/N/Newcomb.html (399 words)

	Simon Newcomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		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.
	www.obliquity.com /newcomb (211 words)

	Newcomb, Simon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His calculations of the motions of the bodies in the Solar System were in use as daily reference all over the world for more than 50 years, and the system of astronomical constants for which he was most responsible is still the standard.
		Newcomb was born in Wallace, Nova Scotia, and had little or no formal education.
		At the Nautical Almanac office, Newcomb started the great work that was to occupy the rest of his life: the calculation of the motions of the bodies in the Solar System.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/N/Newcomb/1.html (223 words)

	The Bruce Medalists: Simon Newcomb
		Newcomb wrote profusely on mathematics, economics, and other subjects and was a leader in American science.
		Campbell, W.W., “Simon Newcomb,” Memoirs of the Nat.
		Newcomb, Simon, Reminiscences of an Astronomer (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1903).
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /brucemedalists/newcomb/Newcomb.html (470 words)

	Newcomb, Simon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Newcomb participated in several eclipse expeditions and in 1882 went to the Cape of Good Hope to observe the transit of Venus.
		Newcomb urged the use of a common system of constants and fundamental stars by astronomers of all nations.
		A subject to which he devoted many years of study was the theory of the moon’s motion.
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	The Newcombs in Lebanon, CT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Newcombs in Lebanon, CT The Newcombs in Lebanon, CT The Trumbull Cemetery
		Simon Newcomb II was the son of Simon and Deborah Newcomb
		Silas Newcomb the son of Hezekiah and Jerusha Newcomb was born September the 20 A.D. Peter Newcomb was born November the 28th 1718
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	Amazon.com: Simon Newcomb: America's Unofficial Astronomer Royal: Books: Bill Carter,Merri Sue Carter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Simon Newcomb is not well known to the general population but he should be.
		Newcomb had a long, and sometimes antagonistic relationship with Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr., who was credited with discovering the true complexity of the variation of latitude (see "Latitude, How American Astronomers Solved the Mystery of Variaton," by the same authors).
		It was Newcomb who reconciled the apparent conflict between the theory and the observed variation of latitude.
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	Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was a strange road that led Simon Newcomb from rural Nova Scotia to international prominence as an astronomer with the United States Navy.
		The solution to the problem of Newcomb's future was solved when at age 16 he was apprenticed to "Doctor" Foshay of Salisbury, New Brunswick.
		Newcomb was a founding member and first president (1899-1905) of the American Astronomical Society.
	www.physics.csbsju.edu /astro/newcomb/SNewcomb.html (625 words)

	No. 1986: Simon Newcomb & Galaxies
		Newcomb's universe is infinite empty space occupied only by that enormous cloud of stars.
		Newcomb, who lived from 1835 until 1909, knew that there were other galaxies.
		Newcomb knew they were there, but our perceptions are now in hyperdrive.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1986.htm (553 words)

	Simon Newcomb
		Simon Newcomb was one of America's earliest (but not complete) converts to the Marginalist Revolution.
		Rather, Newcomb was a renowned Johns Hopkins mathematician, physicist and astronomer who had risen from rags to intellectual riches.
		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.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/newcomb.htm (379 words)

	Amazon.com: A Scientist's Voice in American Culture : Simon Newcomb and the Rhetoric of Scientific Method: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In late nineteenth-century America, Simon Newcomb was the nation's most celebrated scientist and--irascibly, doggedly, tirelessly--he made the most of it.
		Officially a mathematical astronomer heading a government agency, Newcomb spent as much of his life out of the observatory as in it, acting as a spokesman for the nascent but restive scientific community of his time.
		This first full-length study of Newcomb traces the development of his faith in science and ranges over topics of great public debate in the Gilded Age, from the reform of economic theory to the recasting of the debate between science and religion.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520076893?v=glance (643 words)

	Astronomical Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		V.2 No.6 1891 Newcomb, Simon Discussion Of The North Polar Distances Observed With The Greenwich And Washington Transit Circles, With A determination Of The Constant Of Nutation.
		V.5 No.2 1895 Newcomb, Simon Inequalities Of Long Period, And Of The Second Order As To The Masses, In The Mean Longitudes Of The Four Inner Planets.
		V.5 No.3 1895 Newcomb, Simon Theory Of The Inequalites In The Motion Of The Moon Produced By The Action Of The Planets.
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	NEWCOMB, SIMON (1835-1... - Online Information article about NEWCOMB, SIMON (1835-1...
		In view of.the wide extent and importance of his labours, the variety of subjects of which he treats, and the unity of purpose which guided him throughout, Simon Newcomb must be considered as one of the most distinguished astronomers of his See also:
		Hill, Newcomb's distinguished collaborator in the Nautical Almanac office, and thus was ' Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, vol.
		Naval Observatory, Newcomb devoted it almost exclusively for the first two years to observations of the satellites of Uranus and Neptune, being of See also:
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