Smyth, Charles Piazzi [also Charles Piazzi-Smyth] (1819-1900)

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4013.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4013. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Astronomer, son of an amateur astronomer, Admiral William Henry Smyth, and named after the Italian astronomer GIUSEPPE PIAZZI. Became director of what was then called the Astronomical Institution on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, which evolved into the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, in a new building on Blackford Hill in the same city. He made an estimate of the amount of heat radiation received from t...

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