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Simon Newcomb Born: 12 March 1835 in Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada Died: 11 July 1909 in Washington, D.C., USA Click the picture above to see three larger pictures Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Simon Newcomb 's mother was Emily Prince, the daughter of a New Brunswick magistrate. His father, John Burton Newcomb, was a school master in Canada. John moved around teaching in different parts of the country, particularly in different villages in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and Simon received no formal education other than from his father. Nevertheless his father provided him with an excellent foundation for his future studies. When he was sixteen years old Simon took a job with a herbalist, called Dr Foshay, in New Brunswick. They entered an agreement that Newcomb would serve a five year apprenticeship during which time Foshay would train him in using herbs to treat illnesses. For two years he was an apprentice but became increasingly unhappy about Foshay's unscientific approach, realising that the man was a charlatan. He made the decision to walk out on Foshay and break their agreement. Indeed he did literally walk out, for Newcomb walked about 120 miles to the port of Calais in Maine where he met the captain of a ship who agreed to take him to Salem in Massachusetts if he was prepared to work as a sailor on board ship. In about 1854 he joined his father in Salem (John Newcomb had moved earlier to the United States), and the two journeyed together to Maryland.

3. Quotation By Simon Newcomb Simon Newcomb (1835 1909). Ten decimal places of are sufficientto give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Quotations2/312.html

Simon Newcomb Ten decimal places of are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch, and thirty decimal places would give the circumference of the visible universe to a quantity imperceptible to the most powerful microscope. Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

4. Simon Newcomb Simon Newcomb. Born about 1665, Kittery, (York County), ME. Died January 20, 1744(5)at Lebanon, CN http://www.newcomb-family.org/sn1.htm

Simon Newcomb 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 Go to Simon Newcomb history This page was produced by Bob Newcomb in Brea, CA Go to home page Go to Index Go to Married Name Index

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6. 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/

Simon Newcomb 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: Reminiscences of a Astronomer 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 ...

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10. 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

Simon Newcomb 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

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12. Simon Newcomb Simon Newcomb, 18351909. Simon Newcomb was one of America s earliest(but not complete) converts to the Marginalist Revolution. http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/newcomb.htm

Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909. 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.

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Simon Newcomb - Information Home Mathematical and natural sciences Applied arts and sciences Social sciences and philosophy ... Interdisciplinary categories Simon Newcomb March 12 July 11 ) was an astronomer and mathematician . Born Wallace, Nova Scotia , Newcomb appears to have enjoyed no formal education beyond his short apprenticeship to a charlatan herbalist in Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Life 2 Honours 3 Publications 4 External links Life Son of Emily Prince and itinerant school teacher John Burton Newcomb, Simon soon became disillusioned with Dr Foshay and walked the 120 miles to the coast to work his passage on-board ship to Salem, Massachusetts so that he could join his father. Newcomb studied mathematics and physics privately and supported himself with some school-teaching before becoming a computer at the Nautical Almanac Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts in . At around the same time, he enrolled at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University , graduating in In the prelude to the American Civil War , many US Navy staff of Confederate sympathies left the service and, in

14. Simon Newcomb Simon Newcomb. This is an unofficial Simon Newcomb links page, composedby Rev. Source Newcomb, Simon. Outlook for the Flying Machine. http://www.saao.ac.za/~wpk/tov1882/newcomb.html

Simon Newcomb 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. New or more comprehensive material gathered by JFR 9/3/97: Newcomb was probably the first president of the American Astronomical Society; from 1895-1909, according to

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17. Simon Newcomb Simon Newcomb (18351909). Canadian-born US mathematician and astronomer whocompiled charts and tables of astronomical data with phenomenal accuracy. http://astroinfo.port5.com/n/simon_newcomb.html

Simon Newcomb Canadian-born US mathematician and astronomer who compiled charts and tables of astronomical data with phenomenal accuracy. 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. In his teens he ran away to the USA, and eventually enrolled at Harvard. In 1861 he joined the navy, where he was assigned to the US Naval Observatory at Washington DC, and in 1877 put in charge of the American Nautical Almanac office. From 1884 he was also professor of mathematics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. He retired with the rank of rear admiral. 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. The results were published in Astronomical Papers Prepared for the Use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, a series that he founded 1879. With his British counterpart Arthur Matthew Weld Downing (1850-1917), Newcomb established a universal standard system of astronomical constants. This was adopted at an international conference 1896, and again 1950.

18. Simon Newcomb - Bibliography Summary Simon Newcomb Bibliography Summary. Pub Biblio Summary AlphaChron Main Menu Search Short Fiction The End of the World http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Simon_Newcomb

19. The Bruce Medalists: Simon Newcomb 1958 William W. Morgan. 1898 simon newcomb. 1963 Seth B with an Attitude, Scientific American279, 4, 8893 (Oct 1998). newcomb, simon, Reminiscences of an Astronomer http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Newcomb

The Bruce Medalists Photo courtesy Mary Lea Shane Archives, Lick Observatory Simon Newcomb 12 March 1835 1898 Bruce Medalist 11 July 1909 At age eighteen Simon Newcomb, with no money and little education, made his way on foot from his native Nova Scotia to the United States. Later he found employment as a computer with the Nautical Almanac Office , then in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and earned a B.S. at Harvard . He eventually became director of the Nautical Almanac Office, later part of the United States Naval Observatory , and served concurrently as professor of mathematics American Astronomical Society and the American Society for Psychical Research , and also served as president of the American Mathematical Society , the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the Philosophical Society of Washington , and other organizations. Presentation of Bruce medal Alvord, William, PASP Other awards Holland Academy of Sciences, Huygens Medal, 1878. Government of Germany, Order Pour le Merite for Arts and Sciences Royal Astronomical Society, Gold medal , 1874, presented by Arthur Cayley, MNRAS Royal Society

20. Simon Newcomb --  Encyclopædia Britannica Cite this article. simon newcomb. born March 12, 1835, Wallace, Nova Scotia MLA style " simon newcomb." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=56965

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