Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Oct 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007eostr..88..447g&link_type=abstract
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Volume 88, Issue 43, p. 447-447
Physics
Geophysics
History Of Geophysics: Planetology, History Of Geophysics: Solar/Planetary Relationships, Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects: Venus
Scientific paper
Bill Carter and Merri Sue Carter Mantazas; xiii + 213 pp.; ISBN 1-59113-803-5 2006; $26.95 This book introduced me to a commanding figure in American science from the late nineteenth century: Simon Newcomb. Newcomb has been called the nineteenth-century equivalent of Carl Sagan and Albert Einstein. He rose from humble beginnings to be the preeminent American astronomer of his generation. He made basic, far-reaching, and enduring contributions to positional astronomy and planetary dynamics. On the more practical side, he determined a remarkably accurate value for the velocity of light, one within 0.01% of the value accepted today. His work provided an experimental grounding for the special and general theories of relativity to be formulated by Einstein in the coming twentieth century.
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