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7. Index Simon Newcomb. b. March 12, 1835, Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada d. July 11,1909, Washington, DC, USA. Books. A Critical Examination of our Financial http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/newcomb/

Simon Newcomb b. March 12, 1835, Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada d. July 11, 1909, Washington, D.C., USA Books A Critical Examination of our Financial Policy During the Southern Rebellion New York, D. Appleton and company, 1865 (from University of Michigan Library) The ABC of Finance; or, The Money and Labor Questions Familiarly Explained to Common People, in Short and Easy Lessons Articles and Reviews The Let-alone Principle from The North American Review , Volume 110, Issue 226, January 1870, pp 1-33. The Labor Question from The North American Review , Volume 111, Issue 228, July 1870, pp 122-155. W. Stanley Jevons's Theory of Political Economy A Book Review by S. N. in the The North American Review , Volume 114, Issue 235, April 1872, pp. 435-440. The Method and Province of Political Economy from The North American Review , Volume 121, Issue 249, October 1875, pp 241-270. Abstract Science in America, 1776-1876 from The North American Review , Volume 122, Issue 250, January 1876, pp 88-124. The Standard of Value from The North American Review , Volume 129, Issue 274, September 1879, pp 223-238.

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Wikimedia needs your help in the final days of its fund drive. See our fundraising page The Red Cross and other charities also need your help. Simon Newcomb From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Simon Newcomb. Simon Newcomb March 12 July 11 ) was an astronomer and mathematician . Born in the city of Wallace Nova Scotia , Newcomb appears to have enjoyed no formal education beyond his short apprenticeship to a charlatan herbalist in Contents Life Honours Publications External links ... edit 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

13. Simon Newcomb Simon Newcomb was one of the great scientists of the 19th century. He was a giantin the field of celestial mechanics, and his work on the orbital motion of http://www.obliquity.com/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 ...

14. The1882 Transit Of Venus: Observations From Wellington, South Africa. An American expedition under Prof Simon Newcomb erected instruments for the P. The Builders of Huguenot - 1927; newcomb simon - Popular Astronomy http://www.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

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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 (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

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Send your Queries, Lines of Descent, early Family Photos and suggestions to kennewcombe@cogeco.ca Please note my Email address changed on June 18, 2004 from kennewcombe@attcanada.net This page exists to allow people researching the surname "Newcomb/Newcombe" and other spelling variants to exchange information, post queries and to point to information sources. I welcome, suggestions and information pertaining to this topic. In the USA the name is invariably spelled NEWCOMB. In Canada, the common spelling is NEWCOMBE. Additional variant spellings: Newcom, Newcomen, Neucomen, Neucome, Newcome, Neucum, Neucom, Nucum, Nucumb, Neukomb, Newkomb, Neucombe, Neucomb, Newcum, and Newkombe. Search for names or words anywhere on this site! Use the wild card specifier * if not sure of spelling. eg. Bro* finds Brown, Brodnicki etc. Table of Contents Last Update Lines of Descent Postings of "NEWCOMB(E)" Lines of Descent. January 18, 2005 Queries Page Postings of "NEWCOMB(E)" relevant of Queries September 1, 2005

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Suche: Main Page '''Simon Newcomb''' ( March 12 July 11 ) was an astronomer and mathematician . Born in the city of Wallace Nova Scotia , Newcomb appears to have enjoyed no formal education beyond his short apprenticeship to a charlatan herbalist in Life Son of Emily Prince and itinerant school teacher John Burton Newcomb, Simon soon became disillusioned with ''Dr Foshay'' and walked the 120 mile s 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 , Newcomb took advantage of one of the ensuing vacancies to become professor of mathematics and astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory Washington D.C.

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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 Version for printing 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.

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