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Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
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Simon Newcomb

American astronomer and mathematician
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Professor of Astronomy, Yale University, 1966ā€“74. Coauthor of Methods of Celestial Mechanics.
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Simon Newcomb (born March 12, 1835, Wallace, N.S., Can.ā€”died July 11, 1909, Washington, D.C., U.S.) was a Canadian-born American astronomer and mathematician who prepared ephemeridesā€”tables of computed places of celestial bodies over a period of timeā€”and tables of astronomical constants. Newcomb displayed his aptitude for working with figures at an early age. His father, an itinerant country schoolteacher, taught him to count at the age of four, and before he was five he was spending...

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