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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 3 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Newcomb, Simon 1835- (search)
Newcomb, Simon 1835- Astronomer; born in Wallace, N. S., March 12, 1835; was educated privately; came to the United States in 1853; appointed computer on the Simon Newcomb. Nautical almanac in 1857; graduated at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard College in 1858; and was appointed Professor of Mathematics in the UnitSimon Newcomb. Nautical almanac in 1857; graduated at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard College in 1858; and was appointed Professor of Mathematics in the United States navy in 1861, and assigned to duty in the Naval Observatory. In 1894 he also became Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in Johns Hopkins University. Professor Newcomb is a member of many American and foreign scientific societies, and has received the Copley, the Royal Society, the Huygens, and the Bruce medals. He isProfessor Newcomb is a member of many American and foreign scientific societies, and has received the Copley, the Royal Society, the Huygens, and the Bruce medals. He is an officer of the Legion of Honor, and the only American since Benjamin Franklin who has become an associate of the Institute of France. For many years he has been editor-in-chief of The American journal of Mathematics. He has made numerous astronomical discoveries, which he has published in more than 100 papers. His publicati
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Scientific Cambridge. (search)
measure to a kindred scientific spirit. The university is the proper environment of such men. In 1850, the Scientific School was established, and under the instruction of Agassiz, Gray, Wyman, Peirce, Eustis, Horsford, a number of teachers were bred who, I have said, have extended the spirit of research over the entire continent. In the early days of the Scientific School, a number of remarkable men were here as students or as assistants. I need only mention among them the names of Simon Newcomb, Asaph Hall, Dr. B. A. Gould, S. H. Scudder, Morse, Hyatt, and Putnam. At the time I now speak of there were no well-equipped laboratories in Cambridge. The observatory was the only endowed scientific institution, and there the two Bonds—father and son —initiated the astronomical publications which have continued in such full measure. In the work of the Bonds we perceive the beginning of that careful physical study of the planets which has now become such an important part of astron
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
k of nine million dollars. The principal office is in Chicago, Ill. The Cambridgeport factory is the second largest plant of the New York Biscuit Co., and has the capacity of consuming from three hundred to four hundred barrels of flour per day. To take care of its output one hundred wagons and one hundred and fifty horses are used. Six hundred and fifty residents of the city of Cambridge are constantly employed in this factory. Alvan Clark & Sons. In an article written by Professor Simon Newcomb, and published in Scribner's Magazine in 1873, he says: When we trace back the chain of causes which led to the construction of the great Washington telescope, we find it to commence with so small a matter as the accidental breaking of a dinner-bell, in the year 1843, at the Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. One of the students, George B. Clark by name, gathered up the fragments of the bell, took them to his home in Cambridgeport, melted them, and cast them into a disk. His fath
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
, A history of money and prices (1885), and The economy of high wages (1893). Somewhat more academic were Professor W. G. Sumner (1840-1910), with his Lectures on the history of protection (1877), a history of American currency (1878), problems in political economy (1885), and What social classes owe to each other (1883), and Professor C. F. Dunbar (1830-1900) with his Chapters on the theory and history of banking (1891) and Economic essays (1904). A more original mind was the astronomer Simon Newcomb (1835-1919), who after devoting some attention to financial policy made his chief contribution in Principles of political economy (1886). Worthy of mention as writers on money are S. Dana Horton, Silver and Gold (1876), The monetary situation (1878), The silver Pound (1887); John J. Knox, United States notes (1884); A. Del Mar, A history of the precious Metals (1880) and Money and civilization (1886); and C. A. Conant, A history of modern Banks of issue (1886) and The principles of money
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Nelly Gray, 516 Nelson, Wolfred, 162 Neuendorff, Adolf, 587, 588 Neue Unpartheyische Lancaster Zeitung, 576 Neue Unpartheyische Readinger Zeitung, 576 New and complete system of arithmetic, 401 New basis of civilization, the, 442 Newcomb, Simon, 440 New day, the, 49 New Eldorado, the, 166 Newell, W. W., 512, 515 New Englander, 301, 303 New England farmer, the, 430 New England Primer, the, 391, 521 New England psalm singer, 574 New England's first fruits, 392 of economics (Taussig), 443 Principles of free trade, the, 438 Principles of money and banking, the, 440 Principles of political economy (Atkinson), 437 Principles of political economy (Bowen), 435 Principles of political economy (Newcomb), 440 Principles of political economy (Vethake), 434 Principles of psychology (James), 250, 254, 421 Principles of psychology (Thorndike), 422 Principles of social Science, 435 Principles of statistical inquiry, 438 Prison dia
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), chapter 11 (search)
strument. It is a ponderous mass, and we question whether so great a weight can be controlled conveniently; but we find that it moves at a touch. There are certain difficulties in the use of so large a telescope, even if it is thus easily handled. In a large telescope, the apparent motion of the stars is so magnified that those at any distance from the pole seem fairly to rush across the field of view. Add to this the fact that the field of a large telescope is very small, and Professor Simon Newcomb may be understood when he says that with a telescope and nothing else one might spend a whole winter evening looking for Sirius, and on finding him, lose him at once and irrevocably. This difficulty of finding and keeping stars is obviated by the equatorial mounting, as well as by the finders, telescopes of low power and large field attached to the tube. \When a star is found, the instrument can be clamped so that it can be moved only in one direction — that of the star's apparent