Simon Newcomb (1835–1909)
Autor de Astronomy for Everybody
Sobre El Autor
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Obras de Simon Newcomb
A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy With Its Applications to the Determination and Reduction of Positions of the Fixed… (1906) 11 copias
The Stars 3 copias
Astronomical Papers Prepared For The Use Of The American Ephemeris And Nautical Almanac (2018) 2 copias
Investigation of Inequalities in the Motion of the Moon Produced by the Action of the Planets 1 copia
On The Position Of The Galactic And Other Principal Planes Toward Which The Stars Tend To Crowd (1904) (2010) 1 copia
Researches on the motion of the moon, made at the United States Naval Observatory, Washington. reduction and discussion… (1878) 1 copia
Researches on the motion of the moon. the mean motion of the moon and other astronomical elements derived from… (1912) 1 copia
Tähtitiede 1 copia
Tables of the four Inner Planets 1 copia
Astonomy For Everybody 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Newcomb, Simon
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1835-03-12
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1909-07-11
- Lugar de sepultura
- Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Canada (birth)
USA (citizenship) - Lugar de nacimiento
- Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Educación
- Harvard University
- Ocupaciones
- astronomer
mathematician
novelist - Relaciones
- Whitney, Hassler (grandson)
Whitney, William Dwight (son-in-law) - Organizaciones
- Nautical Almanac Office
United States Naval Observatory
Johns Hopkins University
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Royal Society (mostrar todos 8)
American Mathematical Society
American Astronomical Society - Premios y honores
- Bruce Medal (1898)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1874)
Huygens Medal (1878)
Copley Medal (1890)
Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur (1893)
Asteroid namesake "855 Newcombia" (mostrar todos 7)
Crater on Moon named in his honor
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 37
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 139
- Popularidad
- #147,351
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 43
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