Newcomb studied mathematics under Benjamin Peirce and the impecunious Newcomb was often a welcome guest at the Peirce home.

However, Simon Newcomb carefully studied Hell's notebooks and exonerated him a century after his death in Vienna.

Known to his family as " Bob ", he was born in New Orleans to George Walter Anderson, a grain broker, and Annette McConnell Anderson, member of a prominent New Orleans family, who had studied art at Newcomb College, where she had absorbed the ideals of the American Arts and Crafts movement.

Newcomb was revered as a multitalented genius, with a special mastery of mathematics, and he had become internationally famous in the years before Doyle began writing his stories.

In the prelude to the American Civil War, many US Navy staff of Confederate sympathies left the service and, in 1861, Newcomb took advantage of one of the ensuing vacancies to become professor of mathematics and astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory, Washington D. C .. Newcomb set to work on the measurement of the position of the planets as an aid to navigation, becoming increasingly interested in theories of planetary motion.

In 1873 he became professor of mathematics at the US Naval Observatory, where he made a favorable impression on Simon Newcomb.

Simon and Mary Caroline Hassler Newcomb were themselves the grandparents of the also much noted professor of mathematics, Hassler Whitney.

About 20 years later, Newcomb allegedly influenced the Carnegie Institution Trustees, to prevent C. S. Peirce's last chance to publish his life's work, through a denial of a Carnegie grant to Peirce, even though Andrew Carnegie himself, Theodore Roosevelt, William James and others, wrote to support it.

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 ).

* Simon Newcomb, A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy ( Macmillan, 1906 – republished by Dover, 1960 ), 160-172.

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.

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

Studio pottery — exemplified by the Grueby Faience Company, Newcomb Pottery in New Orleans, Marblehead Pottery, Teco pottery, Overbeck and Rookwood pottery and Mary Chase Perry Stratton's Pewabic Pottery in Detroit, as well as the art tiles made by Ernest A. Batchelder in Pasadena, California, and idiosyncratic furniture of Charles Rohlfs all demonstrate the influence of Arts and Crafts.

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.

A plan view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano complex ( including the footprint of the " Great Stone Church ") prepared by architectural historian Rexford Newcomb in 1916.

Newcomb's paradox was created by William Newcomb of the University of California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

This information posted by Charlie Newcomb, grandson of Reva Newcomb.

* Hudson River Gorge – A valley cut by the Hudson River east of Newcomb hamlet.

The middle of the campus, between Freret and Willow Streets and bisected by McAlister Place and Newcomb Place, serves as the center of campus activities.

The Newcomb campus was designed by New York architect James Gamble Rogers, noted for his work with Yale University's campus.

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 ".

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.

* Steinmann, G. ( 1927 ) Die ophiolitshen zonen in den mediterranen Kettengebirgen, translanted and reprinted by Bernoulli and Friedman, in Dilek and Newcomb, editors, Ophiolite Concept and the Evolution of Geologic Thought, Geological Society of America Special Publication 373, 77-91

In June 1791, Deacon and Judge Nathaniel Gray, Elisha Gray, Joel Hatch, Abram Raymond, Newcomb Raymond and James Raymond, visited these lands in the interest of the company as an exploring party, accompanied by Josiah Throop, chief of the corps who had surveyed the tract that and the preceding years.

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

Newcomb was aware of the secular variation in the length of the mean solar day caused by tidal acceleration, but he does not appear to have fully corrected for it.

* Bitter Creek Newcomb — killed May 2, 1895, in Payne County, Oklahoma Territory, by the Dunn Brothers, who were Bounty Hunters.

The 1941 report ends: " The X-ray branch had as a guest Professor Rose C. L. Mooney of Newcomb College, who was prevented by the war from carrying on research in Europe under a Guggenheim Fellowship ... As the year ends, the National Defense effort is beginning to claim the services of a number of staff members.

Michelson published his result of 299, 910 ± 50 km / s in 1879 before joining Newcomb in Washington DC to assist with his measurements there.

In particular, Daniel Coit Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins University, is alleged to have been on the point of awarding tenure to C. S. Peirce, before Newcomb intervened behind the scenes to dissuade him.

In the same year, Arp was awarded the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for his address, " The Stellar Content of Galaxies ", read before a joint session of the American Astronomical Society and AAAS Section D.

On March 13, 1895, Newcomb students played the first public basketball game in the South before 560 other women at the Southern Athletic Club.

The definition depended on a particular theory of the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, that of Newcomb ( 1895 ), which is now obsolete ; for that reason among others, the use of Besselian years has also become or is becoming obsolete.

Having no means of accessing the necessary information with his modem, Porter convinced Newcomb to become his partner and together create a company that would enable any individual with a personal computer to trade stocks from their home — thereby disintermediating stock trades.

In 1881, Newcomb discovered the statistical principle now known as Benford's law, when he observed that the earlier pages of logarithm books, used at that time to carry out logarithmic calculations, were far more worn than the later pages.

The application was doomed ; his nemesis Newcomb served on the Institution's executive committee, and its President had been the President of Johns Hopkins at the time of Peirce's dismissal.

Dr. Horace Newcomb currently holds the Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabodys ' in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.

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.

Newcomb is located at ( 36. 283646 ,-108. 706807 ).

The Town of Newcomb is at the west border of the county.

Roosevelt rushed down ten miles ( 16 km ) from his campsite at Lake Tear of the Clouds to the closest town and telephone which was outside of Newcomb, New York, approximately away from Long Lake.

Baldwin was born in Massapequa, New York, the son of Carol Newcomb ( née Martineau ), a breast cancer survivor who founded the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Care Center of the University Hospital and Medical Center at Stony Brook, and Alexander Rae Baldwin, Jr., a high school history / social studies teacher and football coach .< ref >

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.

Bill Doolin, " Bitter Creek " Newcomb, and Charlie Pierce were the only members left of the Dalton Gang, although none was present at the Coffeyville shootout. Speculation later suggested that there had been a sixth man holding horses in an alleyway and that he had escaped, and that man was believed to have been Bill Doolin.

The gang consisted at various times of Bill Doolin, George " Bittercreek " Newcomb ( aka " Slaughter Kid "), Charley Pierce, Oliver " Ol " Yantis, William Marion " Bill " Dalton, William " Tulsa Jack " Blake, Dan " Dynamite Dick " Clifton, Roy Daugherty ( a. k. a. " Arkansas Tom Jones "), George " Red Buck " Waightman, Richard " Little Dick " West, and William F. " Little Bill " Raidler.

After arriving in Maryland, Newcomb taught for two years from 1854 to 1856 ; for the first year in a country school in Massey's Cross Roads, Kent County, MD, then for a year at a school not far south in Sudlersville in Queen Anne's County, MD.

Newcomb was specifically critical of the work of Samuel Pierpont Langley, who claimed that he could build a flying machine powered by a steam engine and whose initial efforts at flight were public failures.