Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909)

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke3889.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3889. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Mathematical astronomer, born in Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada, moved with his family to Maryland and self-studied mathematics. Worked at the US Nautical Almanac Office (then in Cambridge, MA), studied at Harvard, and was appointed to the US Naval Observatory at Washington, DC, becoming director. In his own words, because of the `confusion which pervaded the whole system of exact astronomy, ari...

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