Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science

Name: Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
Author: Simon Newcomb

by Simon Newcomb

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Charles Franks, Robert Rowe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines.

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2003-05-01

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Public domain in the USA.

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Flying-machines Astronomy Compass Hyperspace Learning and scholarship Rain-making

About the author

Simon Newcomb

1835–1909

A brilliant astronomer and mathematician, he helped make the motions of the planets and Moon far more precise and became one of the leading scientific figures of his era. His writing brought big ideas in astronomy to general readers as well as specialists.

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