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Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

Simon Newcomb
England, Nova Scotia, Descent
Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

Simon Newcomb
America, Eclipse Of The Sun, British
Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Simon Newcomb
Country, Teacher, Father
Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

Simon Newcomb
Teaching, Fifteen, Twenties
Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six.

Simon Newcomb
Reading, Aunt, Years

A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.

Simon Newcomb
Years, Annapolis, Naval

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

Simon Newcomb
Thinking, Might, Revolution
Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

Simon Newcomb
Prayer, Men, Knives
Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

Simon Newcomb
Psychology, Way, Fields
Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.

Simon Newcomb
Years, Names, Two
Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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