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Simon Newcomb

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  1835 - 1909

  Mathematician

  Canadian

   

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• "In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes." - Simon Newcomb
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• "My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher." - Simon Newcomb
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• "My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men." - Simon Newcomb
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• "One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars." - Simon Newcomb
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• "Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it." - Simon Newcomb
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