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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained ...

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The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my ...

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My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concern...

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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its ef...

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What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant gu...

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Simon Newcomb

Astronomer

Born: 1835-03-12

Died: 1909-07-11

Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician, and Professor of Mathematics in the U.S. Navy and at Johns Hopkins. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel.More