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سیمون نیوکامب

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سیمون نیوکامب

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ستاره‌شناس، ریاضی‌دان، و اقتصاددان کانادایی

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Simon Newcomb (1835–1909) was an American male figure associated with the United States. His recorded works include *A B C of Finance*, *Astronomy for Everybody*, *Reminiscences of an Astronomer*, *Popular Astronomy*, and *Fairyland of Geometry and Other Essays in Science*. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

MusicBrainz lists him as a person with genres including cool jazz, jazz, and swing. Open Library records 37 works under his name, while Crossref lists five works and Europeana Sparql lists one. He is referenced by 551 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Europeana Sparql, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
37

Top works

  • a B C of Finance
  • Astronomy for Everybody
  • Reminiscences of an Astronomer
  • Popular Astronomy
  • Compendium of Spherical Astronomy with Its Applications to the Determination and Reduction of Positions of the Fixed Stars

via Open Library + Wikidata

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
10
Total plays
57

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Simon+Newcomb">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Simon Newcomb

Quotes

  • Is the Airship Possible? That depends, first of all, on whether we are to make the requisite scientific discoveries... the construction of an aerial vehicle ... which could carry even a single man from place-to-place at pleasure requires the discovery of some new metal or some new force.
  • One of the most curious of these cases [geometrical paradoxers] was that of a student, I am not sure but a graduate, of the University of Virginia, who claimed that geometers were in error in assuming that a line had no thickness. He published a school geometry based on his views, which received the endorsement of a well-known New York school official and, on the basis of this, was actually endorsed, or came very near being endorsed, as a text-book hi the public schools of New York.

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Key facts

Born
( 1835-03-12 ) March 12, 1835, Wallace, Nova Scotia , Canada
Died
July 11, 1909 (1909-07-11) (aged 74), Washington, D.C. , U.S.
Citizenship
American
Alma mater
Harvard University ( BS , 1858)
Spouse
Mary Caroline Hassler ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. August 4, 1863</span>"}]]}'>1863 ) ​
Children
4, including Anita and Josepha
Awards
Copley Medal (1890) , Bruce Medal (1898)
Fields
Astronomy , Mathematics
Academic advisors
Benjamin Peirce
Doctoral students
Henry Ludwell Moore

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Simon
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Wallace
Place of death
Washington, D.C.
Occupation
writer
Position held
chairperson
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
Benjamin Peirce
Doctoral student
Henry Ludwell Moore
Field of work
economics
Military branch
United States Navy
Military rank
admiral
Image
Simon Newcomb 01.jpg
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Commons category
Simon Newcomb
date of birth
1835-03-12
date of death
1909-07-11
manner of death
natural causes
name in native language
Simon Newcomb
cause of death
cancer
writing language
English language
contributed to creative work
Popular Science
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
Commons Creator page
Simon Newcomb
Sources (6)

via Wikidata · CC0

Works in European collections

1 object attributed to سیمون نیوکامب, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Gallery (3)