Simon Newcomb

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement…

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men…

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and…

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I…

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school…

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and…

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under…