The fascinating autobiography of Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician Simon Newcomb.
Chapter 1 THE AUTHOR'S SCIENTIFIC WORK
The Orbits of the Asteroids.-The Problems of Mathematical
Astronomy.-The Motion of the Moon and its Perplexing
Inequalities.-A Visit to the Paris Observatory to search for
Forgotten Observations.-Wonderful Success in finding Them.-
The Paris Commune.-The History of the Moon's Motion carried back
a Century.-The Harvard Observatory.-The "Nautical Almanac" Office
and its Work.-Mr. George W. Hill and his Work.-A Wonderful
Algebraist.-The Meridian Conference of 1884, and the Question
of Universal Time.-Tables of the Planets completed.-
The Astronomical Constants.-Work unfinished.
Chapter 1 THE AUTHOR'S SCIENTIFIC WORK
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Chapter 2 THE WORLD OF COLD AND DARKNESS
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Chapter 3 DOCTOR FOSHAY
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Chapter 4 THE WORLD OF SWEETNESS AND LIGHT
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Chapter 5 LIFE AND WORK AT AN OBSERVATORY
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Chapter 6 GREAT TELESCOPES AND THEIR WORK
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Chapter 7 THE TRANSITS OF VENUS
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Chapter 8 THE LICK OBSERVATORY
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Chapter 9 THE AUTHOR'S SCIENTIFIC WORK No.9
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Chapter 10 SCIENTIFIC WASHINGTON
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Chapter 11 SCIENTIFIC ENGLAND
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Chapter 12 MEN AND THINGS IN EUROPE
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Chapter 13 THE OLD AND THE NEW WASHINGTON
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Chapter 14 MISCELLANEA
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