21. Newcomb, Simon Search Biographies Bio search tips newcomb, simon nOO'kum, nyOO' Pronunciation Key. newcomb, simon , 18351909, American astronomer, b http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0835394.html

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22. 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

The 1882 Transit of Venus: Observations from Wellington, South Africa. Download MNASSA paper (2.2 MByte PDF-file) on the American expedition to Wellington Download MNASSA paper (900 kByte PDF-file)on the British expeditions to South Africa Hierdie blad in Afrikaans 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

23. Newcomb Biography of simon newcomb (18351909) simon newcomb. Born 12 March 1835 in Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada simon newcomb's mother was Emily Prince, the daughter of a New Brunswick magistrate http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newcomb.html

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.

24. Simon Newcomb Bibliography newcomb, simon, “On the Secular Variations and Mutual Relations of the Orbits ofthe Asteroids,” Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 5, 123 http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Newcomb/NewcombRefs.html

Simon Newcomb Bibliography Papers, etc. Papers are in the manuscript division of the Library of Congress Other References: Historical Journal for the History of Astronomy Nautical Almanac Sesquicentennial Symposium, Proceedings, (U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC, 1999). Dick, Steven J., Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory 1830-2000 (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK , 2002). Proceedings of the Nautical Almanac Office Sequicentennial Symposium, U.S. Naval Observatory, March 3-4, 1999, JHA Hodge, Paul, The Andromeda Galaxy (Kluwer, Dordrecht, NL, 1992). Lankford, John, American Astronomy: Community, Careeers, and Power, 1859-1940 (Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997). Moyer, Albert E., American Physics in Transition: A History of Conceptual Change in the Late Nineteenth Century (Tomash, Los Angeles, 1983). Proceedings of the Nautical Almanac Office Sequicentennial Symposium, U.S. Naval Observatory, March 3-4, 1999, Sky With Ocean Joined, Proceedings of the Sesquicentennial Symposia of the U.S. Naval Observatory , (USNO, 1983), p. 74-88.

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SIMON NEWCOMB NEWCOMB, SIMON completed one important section of the work projected by Newcomb ifl 1877. In the Astronomical Papers of the American Ephemeris will be found a large number of contributions from Newcombs pen on some fundamental and most important questions of astronomy. Among these are papers on The Recurrence of Solar Eclipses, A Transformation of Hansens Lunar Theory, Development of the Periurbative Function and its Derivatives. His memoir On the Motion of Hyperion, a New Case in Celestial Mechanics, is in some respects one of his most original researches. He discussed the transits of Venus of 1761 and 1769, and those of Mercury from 1677 to 1881. At the international conference, which met at Paris in 1896 for the purpose of elaborating a common system of constants and fundamental stars to be employed in the various national ephemerides, Newcomb took a leading part, and at its suggestion undertook the task of determining a definite value of the constant of precession, and of 2 Washington Observations, 1875, Appendix II. Ibid., 1873, Appendix I.

26. Simon Newcomb --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia newcomb, simon Britannica Student Encyclopedia. , Life from newcomb, simonnewcomb displayed his aptitude for working with figures at an early age. http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?eu=298091&query=mcclendon, sarah newcomb&c

27. Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909) newcomb, simon (18351909) Canadian-born American mathematical astronomerand one of the foremost exponents of celestial mechanics http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/N/Newcomb.html

The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight FRONT PAGE NEWS ARCHIVE NEWSLETTER ... Z this site WWW Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909) Canadian-born American mathematical astronomer and one of the foremost exponents of celestial mechanics of his time, who became Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac Office in 1877. 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. For more: var site="s13space1234"

28. Newcomb, Simon newcomb, simon (18351909). Canadian-born US mathematician and astronomer whocompiled charts and tables of astronomical data with phenomenal accuracy. http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/N/Newcomb/1.html

29. Newcomb, Simon Search Biographies Bio search tips newcomb, simon nOO'kum, nyOO' Pronunciation Key. newcomb, simon , 18351909, American astronomer, b http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0835394.hmtl

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31. Newark Industrial Exhibition -- Newcomb, Simon: In Cornell University's Making O Newark Industrial Exhibition newcomb, simon Previous Next 107, issue 220 (July 1868). newcomb, simon, Abstract Science in America, 17761876 http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/browse.author/n.69.html

A B C D ... Non-alphabetic Newark Industrial Exhibition Newcomb, Simon: Previous Next Newark Industrial Exhibition Manufacturer and Builder , vol. 4, issue 9 (September 1872). The Newark Industrial Exposition Manufacturer and Builder , vol. 4, issue 10 (October 1872). Newark Industrial Fair Manufacturer and Builder , vol. 7, issue 11 (November 1875). Newbern as It Was and Is The Continental Monthly , vol. 2, issue 1 (July 1862). Newbery, Fenton T. Our Foreign Trade The Century , vol. 51, issue 5 (Mar 1896). Newbolt, Henry Craven The Atlantic Monthly , vol. 82, issue 490 (August 1898). Newbolt, Henry Gillespie The Atlantic Monthly , vol. 81, issue 487 (May 1898). Newbolt, Henry Messmates The Atlantic Monthly , vol. 82, issue 493 (November 1898). The Newburg Steam-Engine Manufacturer and Builder , vol. 4, issue 10 (October 1872). The Newcastle Scholarship The Living Age , vol. 9, issue 106 (May 23, 1846). Newcomb, H. T. The Crisis of Civil Service Reform The North American Review , vol. 166, issue 495 (February 1898). Newcomb, H. T. The Opposition to Railway Pooling The North American Review , vol. 168, issue 508 (March 1899).

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SIMON NEWCOMB NEWCOMB, SIMON completed one important section of the work projected by Newcomb ifl 1877. In the Astronomical Papers of the American Ephemeris will be found a large number of contributions from Newcombs pen on some fundamental and most important questions of astronomy. Among these are papers on The Recurrence of Solar Eclipses, A Transformation of Hansens Lunar Theory, Development of the Periurbative Function and its Derivatives. His memoir On the Motion of Hyperion, a New Case in Celestial Mechanics, is in some respects one of his most original researches. He discussed the transits of Venus of 1761 and 1769, and those of Mercury from 1677 to 1881. At the international conference, which met at Paris in 1896 for the purpose of elaborating a common system of constants and fundamental stars to be employed in the various national ephemerides, Newcomb took a leading part, and at its suggestion undertook the task of determining a definite value of the constant of precession, and of 2 Washington Observations, 1875, Appendix II. Ibid., 1873, Appendix I.

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