Astronomers use the Julian calendar for years before 1582, including this year 0, and the Gregorian calendar for years after 1582 as exemplified by Jacques Cassini ( 1740 ), Simon Newcomb ( 1898 ) and Fred Espenak ( 2007 ).

Brent documents something Peirce never suspected, namely that his efforts to obtain academic employment, grants, and scientific respectability were repeatedly frustrated by the covert opposition of a major Canadian-American scientist of the day, Simon Newcomb.

*< cite id = refNewcSun > Simon Newcomb ( 1895 ), Tables of the Sun (" Tables of the Motion of the Earth on its Axis and Around the Sun ", in " Tables of the Four Inner Planets ", vol.

* March 12 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American Astronomer ( d. 1909 )

although it had been previously stated by Simon Newcomb in 1881.

Louis Gathmann received a patent ( US Patent 462, 795 ) for his weather modification research and wrote a book, Rain Produced At Will on the subject which also had chapters written by respected scientific authorities of the era, such as Simon Newcomb.

* 1882 – Simon Newcomb observes a 43 arcsecond per century excess precession of Mercury's orbit

Simon Newcomb

In addition to the master criminal Adam Worth, there has been much speculation among astronomers and Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts that Doyle based his fictional character Moriarty on the American astronomer Simon Newcomb.

In 1879, he was posted to the Nautical Almanac Office, Washington ( part of the United States Naval Observatory ), to work with Simon Newcomb.

He conducted some preliminary measurements using largely improvised equipment in 1878, about the same time that his work came to the attention of Simon Newcomb, director of the Nautical Almanac Office who was already advanced in planning his own study.

Simon Newcomb, with his more adequately funded project, obtained a value of 299, 860 ± 30 km / s, just at the extreme edge of consistency with Michelson's.

Simon Newcomb ( 12 March 1835 – 11 July 1909 ) was a Canadian-American astronomer who revised Peter Andreas Hansen's table of lunar positions.

Other famous residents include Astronomer and Mathematician Simon Newcomb.

Wells also used the concept of parallel universes as a consequence of time as the fourth dimension in stories like The Wonderful Visit and Men Like Gods, an idea proposed by the astronomer Simon Newcomb, who talked about both time and parallel universes ; " Add a fourth dimension to space, and there is room for an indefinite number of universes, all alongside of each other, as there is for an indefinite number of sheets of paper when we pile them upon each other ".

* Simon Newcomb ( 1897 – 98 )

At the time of publication of Hansen's Tables of the Moon in 1857, astronomers generally believed that the lunar theory was at last complete ; but within about a decade, it was noticed, and shown by Simon Newcomb, that the optimism had been unfounded: deviations between computed and observed positions began to grow at a rate showing that further refinement was necessary.

Chandler's contribution was to look for motions at any possible period ; once the Chandler wobble was observed, the difference between its period and the one predicted by Euler was explained ( by Simon Newcomb ) as being caused by the non-rigidity of the Earth.

They included Simon Newcomb at Johns Hopkins, John Bates Clark at Columbia, James Laurence Laughlin at Chicago, Charles F Dunbar and Frank William Taussig at Harvard, Arthur T. Hadley and William Graham Sumner at Yale, and controlled the American university system in the East.

* Simon Newcomb makes the first statement of Benford's law.

The constitution of the group was written by Hale, George Comstock, Edward Morley, Simon Newcomb and Edward Charles Pickering.

When Canadian-American astronomer Simon Newcomb was appointed director of the Naval Almanac Office of the United States Naval Observatory in 1877, he set about a program of redetermination of the astronomical constants with George William Hill.

Hassler Whitney's maternal grandparents were astronomer and celestial mechanician Simon Newcomb and Mary Hassler Newcomb ( the granddaughter of the first superintendent of the Coast Survey Ferdinand Hassler ).

* " The Nikon Compendium " by Simon Stafford.

* History of Optics ( audio mp3 ) by Simon Schaffer, Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and Emily Winterburn, Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum ( recorded by the BBC ).

* Simon Schaffer, " John Michell and black holes ", Journal for the History of Astronomy 10 42-43 ( 1979 )

Whilst at university he developed his interest in astronomy when he read Simon Newcomb's Popular Astronomy.

* Armin J. Deutsch, The Sun, in The New Astronomy, a Scientific American Book, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1955

* Simon Schaffer " John Michell and black holes ", Journal for the History of Astronomy 10 42 – 43 ( 1979 )

* History of Optics ( audio mp3 ) by Simon Schaffer, Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and Emily Winterburn, Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum ( recorded by the BBC ).

* Simon Schaffer's 2010 Tarner Lectures ” When the stars threw down their spears ”: Histories of Astronomy and Empire

* Flavius Josephus Eyewitness to Rome's first-century conquest of Judea, Mireille Hadas-lebel, Macmillan 1993, Simon and Schuster 2001

The accused publishers are Apple, Simon & Schuster Inc, Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group, Macmillan, and HarperCollins Publishers.

* George T. Simon, The Big Bands, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1967, Library of Congress no.

United States, Simon & Schuster Macmillan.

New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan.

) Biographical dictionary of Christian missions, Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1998

Random House is considered one of the " Big Six " publishing companies, along with Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster.

* Simon Clarke, Marx, marginalism, and modern sociology: from Adam Smith to Max Weber ( London: The Macmillan Press, Ltd, 1982 ).

** HarperCollins, Hachette, Holtzbrinck / Macmillan, Penguin Putnam, Random House and Simon & Schuster

* Clarke, Simon 1994 Marx ’ s Theory of Crisis Macmillan

* Simon, George T. The Big Bands: Revised Edition ( Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974 )

** Hachette, Holtzbrinck / Macmillan, HarperCollins, Random House and Simon & Schuster

* Simon, H. ( 1947 ) Administrative behaviour, Macmillan, New York, 1947, ( also 2nd edition 1957 ).

Simon & Schuster's first move under Viacom was the acquisition of Macmillan USA.

In 1998, Viacom sold Simon & Schuster's educational operations, including Prentice Hall and Macmillan, to Pearson PLC, the global publisher and owner of Penguin and Financial Times.

* ( Copyright notice from Naval Historical Center website: " Used by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan from Encyclopedia of the American Military, John E. Jessup, Editor in Chief.

Pearson acquired the Macmillan name in America in 1998, following its purchase of the Simon & Schuster educational and professional group ( which included various Macmillan properties ).

In the U. S., the five major publishers — Random House, HarperCollins, Time Warner Publishing, Penguin USA, and Simon & Schuster — are responsible for about 80 % of bestsellers ; the five majors together with the next five largest publishers — Macmillan, Hyperion, Rodale Press, Houghton Mifflin, and Harlequin Enterprises — control around 98 % of all United States bestsellers.

Simon & Schuster bought Macmillan in 1994.

In the book, The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals, the authors erroneously claim that the larger pair of horns of Arsinoitherium were hollow and cone-like, a claim which was repeated in the later edition, The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures.

" Singh ’ s role in the 1937 revival that swept the Martinbur United Presbyterian Church inaugurated one of the most notable movements in the history of the church in the Indian subcontinent ," stated Dr. Jonathan Bonk in Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions published by Simon & Schuster Macmillan in 1998.