Charles Piazzi Smyth
British astronomer (1817-1900) · Scientists · Died at 83
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Something wrong?Charles Piazzi Smyth was a British astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and, along with his wife Jessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth, his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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A night-time view showing an eyewitness account of the Great Comet of 1843, painted by astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth
Firing the One o'clock gun in 1861
α Piscium as seen from Edinburgh (above) and from Alta Vista at 10,700 ft (3,300 m) (below). The separation is 3.5″ and the diameter of the Airy disc 1.5″
This diagram from Smyth's Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (1877) shows some of his measurements and chronological determinations made from them
A pyramid surmounted by a cross, Smyth's tomb in Sharow churchyardAwards
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