Simon Newcomb, America's first great astronomer

Physics Today

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 46-51

  Carter, William E ^a   Carter, Merri Sue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b US Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station   (United States)

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EID: 59749094606     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3086102     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. S. Newcomb, The Reminiscences of an Astronomer, Houghton Mifflin, Boston (1903).
2. S. H. Scudder, The Winnipeg Country, or, Roughing it with an Eclipse Party, Cupples, Upham, & Company, Boston (1886).
3. B. Carter, M. S. Carter, Simon Newcomb: America's Unofficial Astronomer Royal, Mantanzas, Saint Augustine, FL (2006).
4. E. Maor, June 8, 2004: Venus in Transit, Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ (2000).
5. S. J. Dick, Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory, 1830-2000, Cambridge U. Press, New York (2003).
6. S. Newcomb, in Astronomical Papers Prepared for the Use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, vol. 2, Nautical Almanac Office, Washington, DC (1891), p. 107.
7. Michelson Museum, The Albert A. Michelson Nobel Prize and Lecture, Michelson Museum, China Lake, CA (1966).
8. S. Newcomb, Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science: Essays and Addresses, Harper & Brothers, New York (1906).
9. A. Einstein to J. Whitney, Berlin, Germany, 15 July 1926
10. reprinted in Science 69, 248 (1929).