An astronomer calls: extracts from the diaries of Charles Piazzi Smyth

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Jun 2003

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Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (ISSN 1440-2807), Vol. 6, No. 1, p. 37 - 45 (2003).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

French Astronomy, German Astronomy, Italian Astronomy, Lassell, Huggins

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Charles Piazzi Smyth, who for forty-two years in the nineteenth century was Astronomer Royal for Scotland, was an indefatigable traveller who visited many observatories, amateur and professional, at home and abroad, during his years of office. An imaginative, artistic if somewhat eccentric character, he kept informal diaries in which he recorded his day to day experiences and impressions, personal as well as scientific. His reactions to people and places could be prejudiced, but were always interesting. The purpose of assembling these extracts is not so much to throw light on their author, whose story has already been told, as to provide glimpses of what life was like for working astronomers at that time, and of the extent of their collaboration and mutual support.

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