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Author : William Wallace Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000103852475
Author : Edgar William Woolard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Astronomers
ISBN : OCLC:36778643
Author : Alfred Goldsborough Mayer,Edward Salisbury Dana,Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman,George Cary Comstock,Raymond Clare Archibald,Richard Swann Lull,Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin,William Wallace Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Astronomers
ISBN : LCCN:24026980
Author : Simon Newcomb
Publisher : Book Jungle
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1438534566
Simon Newcomb (1835 -1909) was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. He made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel. Newcomb was professor of mathematics and astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory. The table of Contents is divided into sections, Society and its Wants, Capital and its Uses, and The Laborer and His Wages,
Author : Simon Newcomb
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1724810693
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer By Simon Newcomb Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) was an astronomer and mathematician. Born in the town of Wallace, Nova Scotia, Newcomb appears to have enjoyed no formal education beyond his short apprenticeship to a charlatan herbalist in 1851. Son of Emily Prince and itinerant school teacher John Burton Newcomb, Newcomb studied mathematics and physics privately and supported himself with some school-teaching before becoming a computer (a functionary in charge of calculations) at the Nautical Almanac Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1857. At around the same time, he enrolled at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, graduating in 1858. In the prelude to the American Civil War, many US Navy staff of Confederate sympathies left the service and, in 1861, Newcomb took advantage of one of the ensuing vacancies to become professor of mathematics and astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory, Washington D.C. Newcomb set to work on the measurement of the position of the planets as an aid to navigation, becoming increasingly interested in theories of planetary motion. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author : Simon Newcomb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 1406530972
Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) was an astronomer and mathematician. Born in the town of Wallace, Nova Scotia, Newcomb appears to have enjoyed no formal education beyond his short apprenticeship to a charlatan herbalist in 1851. Son of Emily Prince and itinerant school teacher John Burton Newcomb, Newcomb studied mathematics and physics privately and supported himself with some school-teaching before becoming a computer (a functionary in charge of calculations) at the Nautical Almanac Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1857. At around the same time, he enrolled at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, graduating in 1858. In the prelude to the American Civil War, many US Navy staff of Confederate sympathies left the service and, in 1861, Newcomb took advantage of one of the ensuing vacancies to become professor of mathematics and astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory, Washington D. C. Newcomb set to work on the measurement of the position of the planets as an aid to navigation, becoming increasingly interested in theories of planetary motion.
Author : Simon Newcomb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1409959716
Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics, statistics and authoring a science fiction novel. He studied mathematics and physics privately and supported himself with some school-teaching before becoming a human computer (a functionary in charge of calculations) at the Nautical Almanac Office in Massachusetts in 1857. At around the same time, he enrolled at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, graduating in 1858. In 1861, Newcomb became professor of mathematics and astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory. He set to work on the measurement of the position of the planets as an aid to navigation, becoming increasingly interested in theories of planetary motion. In 1877, he became director of the Nautical Almanac Office, where he embarked on a program of recalculation of all the major astronomical constants. In 1881, Newcomb discovered the statistical principle now known as Benford's law. His works include: The ABC of Finance (1877) and The Reminiscences of an Astronomer (1903).
Author : Simon Newcomb
Publisher : Old Book Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781070482
When we look at the sky by day we see the sun; by night we see the moon and stars. These, and all other objects which we see in the heavens, are called heavenly bodies. Astronomy is the science which treats of these bodies. The heavenly bodies are all of immense size, most of them larger than the earth. They look small because they are so far away. If we could fly from the earth as far as we please, it would look smaller and smaller as we went farther, until at a distance of many millions of miles it would appear as a little star. If we kept on yet farther, it would at last disappear from our sight altogether. If we lived on one of the heavenly bodies, it would be to us as the earth, and the earth would be seen as a heavenly body. In trying to think of the relation of the earth to the heavens, we may liken ourselves to microscopic insects living on an apple. To them the apple is a world, than which nothing bigger can be conceived. As this continent is to their apple, so is the universe of stars to our world. We may fancy how their ideas would have to be enlarged to make them comprehend the relations of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; and then we may try to enlarge ours in the same way to understand the relations of the heavenly bodies.
Author : William Wallace Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080715105
Author : Simon Newcomb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1515180131
IntroductionNo doubt the reader thinks he knows nothing about the money and labor questions, and that they are quite beyond his understanding. If he has ever tried to learn anything, he has been so bewildered by opposing theories and opposing assertion as to feel that he knew less than he did before. He is, therefore, quite ready to leave these questions to the politicians, and to vote on them as they think best.This ought not to be. Of course there are many profound financial principles which cannot be fully seen through without careful study, but in the issues now before the people only the A B C of the subject is involved. To understand them one only needs arithmetic enough to keep an account of the money he receives and spends, and common-sense enough not to buy a lottery ticket because just the very pair of trotting horses he wants are to be drawn in the lottery. The difficulty has been that writers and speakers dive so deeply into the principles of constitutional law and the functions of government that plain people cannot clearly follow them; and thus the said people are in the best state of mind to become the dupes of wild theorists and scheming politicians. It is the duty of every man to study subjects in which his own interests and those of the community are so deeply involved with all possible calmness, and without prejudice, that he may be able to give some good reason for the faith that is in him. The writer proposes, in this little book, not to write a treatise on the subject, but only to suggest some thoughts which may be partly new to the reader, and which, if he turns them carefully over in his mind, will enable him to form an intelligent judgment upon the issues now presented to him.
Author : Albert E. Moyer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520076891
This is a full-length study of Newcomb that traces the development of his faith in science and ranges over topics of great public debate in the Gilded Age, from the reform of economic theory to the recasting of the debate between science and religion.
Author : Alan D. Fiala,Steven J. Dick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Astrometry
ISBN : UIUC:30112040088830
Author : Marc Rothenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135583187
This Encyclopedia examines all aspects of the history of science in the United States, with a special emphasis placed on the historiography of science in America. It can be used by students, general readers, scientists, or anyone interested in the facts relating to the development of science in the United States. Special emphasis is placed in the history of medicine and technology and on the relationship between science and technology and science and medicine.
Author : C.C. Heyde,P. Crepel,S.E. Fienberg,E. Seneta,J. Gani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781461301790
Written by leading statisticians and probabilists, this volume consists of 104 biographical articles on eminent contributors to statistical and probabilistic ideas born prior to the 20th Century. Among the statisticians covered are Fermat, Pascal, Huygens, Neumann, Bernoulli, Bayes, Laplace, Legendre, Gauss, Poisson, Pareto, Markov, Bachelier, Borel, and many more.
Author : Joshua Nall
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822986614
Mass media in the late nineteenth century was full of news from Mars. In the wake of Giovanni Schiaparelli’s 1877 discovery of enigmatic dark, straight lines on the red planet, astronomers and the public at large vigorously debated the possibility that it might be inhabited. As rivalling scientific practitioners looked to marshal allies and sway public opinion—through newspapers, periodicals, popular books, exhibitions, and encyclopaedias—they exposed disagreements over how the discipline of astronomy should be organized and how it should establish acceptable conventions of discourse. News from Mars provides a new account of this extraordinary episode in the history of astronomy, revealing how major transformations in astronomical practice across Britain and America were inextricably tied up with popular scientific culture and a transatlantic news economy that enabled knowledge to travel. As Joshua Nall argues, astronomers were journalists, too, eliding practice with communication in consequential ways. As writers and editors, they played a pivotal role in the emergence of a “new astronomy” dedicated to the study of the physical constitution and life history of celestial objects, blurring harsh distinctions between those who produced esoteric knowledge and those who disseminated it.