Simon Newcomb was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hopkins University. Born in Nova Scotia, at the age of 19 Newcomb left an apprenticeship to join his father in Massachusetts, where the latter was teaching.
Newcomb c. 1905
Grave of Simon Newcomb in Arlington National Cemetery
Popular astronomy, 1887
Wallace is a rural community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Train station in Wallace, late 1800s