My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. teacher
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men. dad
Simon Newcomb Astronomer
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Mar 12, 1835
- Died: Jul 11, 1909
Simon Newcomb was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel.