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C. Piazzi Smyth

An English astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza (Wikipedia).

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Born 1819
Died 1900

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  • Cover of: Our inheritance in the great pyramid: including all the most important discoveries up to the time of publication : with twenty-five explanatory plates, giving maps, plans, elevations, and sections of all the more difficult and crucial parts of the structure

    First published in 2012 — 9 editions
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  • Cover of: Our inheritance in the Great pyramid.

    Cover of edition ourinheritancein00smytuoft First published in 1864 — 9 editions
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  • Cover of: Our inheritance in the great pyramid

    First published in 1877 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Poor Man's Photography at the Great Pyramid in the Year 1865: Compared with That of the Ordinance Survey Establishment

    First published in 2018 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Report on the Teneriffe Astronomical Experiment Of 1856

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  • Cover of: Madeira spectroscopic: being a revision of 21 places in the red half of the solar visible spectrum, with a Rutherfurd diffraction grating at Madeira (Lat. = 32 ̊38' N., Long. = I[superscript h] 8[superscript m] W.) during the Summer of 1881

    First published in 1882 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: The great pyramid: its secrets and mysteries revealed

    First published in 1978 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: On the antiquity of intellectual man, from a practical and astronomical point of view

    First published in 1868 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, Ed

    First published in 1874 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment: Or, Specialities of a Residence above the Clouds

    First published in 2010 — 2 editions
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    First published in 1858 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: New measures of the Great pyramid

    First published in 1884 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Micrometrical Measures of Gaseous Spectra under High Dispersion: By C. Piazzi Smyth. from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. 32, Part 3

    First published in 2018 — 2 editions
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    First published in 1864 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Micrometrical measures of gaseous spectra under high dispersion.: By C. Piazzi Smyth. From the Transactions of the Royal society of Edinburgh, vol. 32, pt. 3.

    First published in 1886 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: 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

    First published in 2018 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: New Measures of the Great Pyramid

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  • Cover of: Descriptive catalogue of photographs of the Great Pyramid: taken by Professor Piazzi Smyth ... and published, in 1874, by J. Pollitt

    First published in 1877 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A poor man's photography at the Great Pyramid in the year 1865: compared with that of the ordnance survey establishment, subsidized by London wealth, and under the orders of Col. Sir Henry James ... at the same place four years afterwards : a discourse delivered before the Edinburgh Photographic Society on December 1st, 1869

    First published in 1870 — 1 edition
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Born 1819
Died 1900

Subjects

Pyramids, Miscellanea, Description and travel, Great Pyramid (Egypt), Solar Spectrum, Astronomy, Experiments, Spectrum, Solar, Architectural photography, Climate, Curiosa and miscellany, Description, Meteorology, Observations, Social life and customs, Spectrum analysis, Stars, Ancient Architecture, Ancient Civilization, Antiquities, Astronomical observatories, Canary islands, description and travel, Catalogs, Colonies, Comets

Places

Egypt, Tenerife (Canary Islands), Great Britain, Scotland, Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Teide, Pico de (Canary Islands), Edinburgh, Gorki (Russia), Great Pyramid (Egypt), Madeira (Madeira Islands), Madeira Islands, Nizhegorodskai︠a︡ gubernii︠a︡ (Russia), Pico de (Canary Islands) Teide, Russia Republic), Soviet Union, Sun, Venus (Planet)

Time

1851, 1882

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Alternative names

  • S. Piazzi Smyth
  • Piazzi Smyth
  • Smyth
  • Charles Piazzi
  • 1819-1900
  • Charles Piazzi Smyth
  • C. Piazzi 1819-1900 Smyth
  • Smyth, C. Piazzi

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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import