Author:Charles Piazzi Smyth

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Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819–1900)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery. Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888, well-known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Charles Piazzi Smyth

Works

Selected works and sources by Smyth

• Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1855). Description of New or Improved Instruments for Navigation and Astronomy. Edinburgh: Neill & Co., Printers. 
• Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1858). Teneriffe, An Astronomer's Experiment: or, Specialities of a Residence Above the Clouds. London: L. Reeve.  ([{{{1}}} External scan])
• Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1862). Three Cities in Russia. London: L. Reeve. 
• Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1864). The Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid. London: A. Strahan.  Reprinted in many editions by many publishers, often entitled The Great Pyramid: Its Secrets and Mysteries Revealed. (External scan)
• Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1867). 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. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.  ([{{{1}}} External scan])
• Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1868). On the Antiquity of Intellectual Man: From a Practical and Astronomical Point of View. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.  ([{{{1}}} External scan])
• 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). New Measures of the Great Pyramid. London: R. Banks. 

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• “The Spectroscope and the Weather,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 22, December 1882

Works about Smyth

• “Smyth, Charles Piazzi,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• “Smyth, Charles Piazzi” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• Critical comments on some of Smyth's books, by Olin J. Eggen (1955).
• Brück, Hermann A. (1983). The Story of Astronomy in Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press. 

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.