Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-02

81 washington. d. c., oct 1, 1871
s,snt an evening this week with the
,,ost eminent of the worlds astrono-
M ,,,.rs Prof Simon Newcomb Is to the
NJ .tor,sts of Europe far more interest
H man than the President of the
Us r-,u.1 states. The leading foreign
universities have conferred honorary
,t,crees upon MIN, the greatest of the
I'd ,r,rld,s scientific societies have pre-
- .,ted him with gold medals for his
III ECONOMICAL work and his books are
"a ,,ssd in the chief universities Of Eng
land and Germany. There is today not
an astronomer living who does not
~ l,ase his calculations upon Newcombs
H t,bles of the movements Of the planets
aud the moon, and there is not a ship
~ mat sails the seas that is not guided
ri ~, his measurements of the solar sys-
# TEN.
M If is indeed difficult to give in com
81 mon words a conception of Professor
Newcombs work. 1t might almost be
vi said that he has weighed the planets,
1f hoe held his stop watch on the motions
IA If the moon, and through his mathe-
III NAUTICAL genius has given us Il set of
A instantaneous photographs of the
greater heavenly bodies as they speed
n an their courses through the regions of
4 80 Think of tho most difficult
X olgebraic calculation you have ever
N attempted, imagine 1t to be thousand
times harder than it Is, then take tens
upon tens Of thousands of such calcu-
s lotlons worked over and over again
i4 until absolute accuracy is assured, ana
9 you have small part OF the Ie'i1I,s %, 81
the work Oh ii ,,, IN ,H ~, t,.,ei tbn
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al M".lu ~ Gov. b,Sn5reds nj Years hack
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VA Professor NeWcumb lives mere al
j# Washington in three-story red prick
house on + street, just OF of 18Th IN
H what is one OF the most fashionable
parts Of the city. He has a fine library
"a on the first floor, the walls of his work
shop. from floor to ceiling, being hlled
with books. In his collection there are
X many rare mathematical WORKS;
"a Among others, he showed me Euchd
W which was printed ten years before
lN America was discovered me dia-
grams and initials are Beautifully
2 made, and the ink, notwithstanding
M it's four hundred years, IS as black ~
M that OF the newspaper IN VINO" inns
"a letter VIII be printed, .,.. 81,
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III win he fon1ilv about him and many
WI ~ bis ,,dst diS,cuIt rnirmiotions have
III T.o me ,,ade yShun his vic and daugh-
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ronr, Ho has ve,, know. now retired
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4X first asked Professor Newcoml
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