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Charles Piazzi Smyth

Charles Piazzi Smyth FRSE FRS FRAS FRSSA (3 January 1819 – 21 February 1900) 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.

Charles Piazzi Smyth

(1819-01-03)3 January 1819

Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

21 February 1900(1900-02-21) (aged 81)

Jessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth

Astronomy

Astronomer Royal for Scotland

Honours[edit]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1846, and served on its council for a number of years. In June 1857 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, but resigned in 1874.[13] He was conferred with Honorary Membership of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland in 1859.[14] The crater Piazzi Smyth on the moon is named after him.

Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1855). Description of New or Improved Instruments for Navigation and Astronomy. Edinburgh: Neill & Co., Printers.

Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1858). . London: L. Reeve. Full text available from Google Books

Teneriffe, An Astronomer's Experiment: or, Specialities of a Residence Above the Clouds

Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1862). . London: L. Reeve.

Three Cities in Russia

Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1864). . London: A. Strahan. Reprinted in many editions by many publishers, often entitled The Great Pyramid: Its Secrets and Mysteries Revealed. Full text available on the Internet Archive

The Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid

Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1867). . Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. Full text available from Google Books

Life and Work at the Great Pyramid During the Months of January, February, March, and April, A.D. 1865; With a Discussion of the Facts Ascertained

Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1868). . Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. Full text available from Google Books

On the Antiquity of Intellectual Man: From a Practical and Astronomical Point of View

Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1882). Madeira Spectroscopic: Being a Revision of 21 Places in the Red Half of the Solar Visible Spectrum with a Rutherfurd Diffraction Grating, at Madeira ... During the Summer of 1881. Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston.

Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1884). . London: R. Banks.

New Measures of the Great Pyramid

Geographical centre of Earth

on some of Smyth's books, by Olin J. Eggen (1955).

Critical comments

Brück, Hermann A. (1983). The Story of Astronomy in Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press.

Brück, Hermann Alexander; Brück, Mary T. (1988). The Peripatetic Astronomer: The Life of Charles Piazzi Smyth. Bristol: A. Hilger.  978-0-85274-420-8.

ISBN

Warner, Brian (1983). Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer-Artist, his Cape years 1835 - 1845. Cape Town: A.A.Balkema.

Reisenauer, Eric Michael (2003). ""The Battle of the Standards": Great Pyramid Metrology and British Identity, 1859–1890". The Historian. 65 (4): 931–78. :10.1111/1540-6563.00043. S2CID 145199506.

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"Charles Piazzi Smythe" at History of Astronomy in South Africa

at Open Library

Works by Charles Piazzi Smyth

Pyramidology – A Case of Science, Pseudo-science and Religion

Charles Piazzi Smyth, Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (1877) Plate Index

C. Piazzi Smyth, Charles Taze Russell and the Great Pyramid of Gizeh

Amazing Pyramid "Facts"

B-P's Uncle: Charles Piazzi Smyth

"Charles Piazzi Smith" at the Gazetteer for Scotland

St. John's Church, Sharow: Charles Piazzi Smyth

The Astronomical Society of Edinburgh: A Guide to Edinburgh's Popular Observatory

Doomsday 1701–1970

"Charles Piazzi Smyth – Teneriffe" at the George Eastman House Still Photograph Archive

"The Sphinx and the Great Pyramid at Giza, 1865" photograph by Smyth

The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

Astronomers Royal For Scotland: Summary of Archives