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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Extent of the Universe – Simon Newcomb  

Simon Newcomb was mostly a self taught man.  Yet, he made important advances with respect to timekeeping, applied mathematics, economics and statistics.  This self made Canadian-American also dabbled in writing and astronomy.  It is this last area, astronomy, that we … Continue reading

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