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- a B C of Finance
- Astronomy for Everybody
- Reminiscences of an Astronomer
- Popular Astronomy
- Compendium of Spherical Astronomy with Its Applications to the Determination and Reduction of Positions of the Fixed Stars
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- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1911-12-15
- Active to
- 1979-08-25
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Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hopkins University. Born in Nova Scotia, at the age of 19 Newcomb left an apprenticeship to join his father in Massachusetts, where the latter was teaching.
Though Newcomb had little conventional schooling, he completed a Bachelor of Science at Harvard in 1858. He later made important contributions to timekeeping, as well as to other fields in applied mathematics, such as economics and statistics. Fluent in several languages, he also wrote and published several popular science books and a science fiction novel.
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