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Charles Piazzi Smyth
Charles Piazzi Smyth
Born(1819-01-03)3 January 1819
Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Died21 February 1900(1900-02-21) (aged 81)
SpouseJessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsAstronomer Royal for Scotland

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.

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Charles Smyth

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Pyramidology

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Giuseppe Piazzi

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Smyth

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Great Comet of 1843

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painting in the National Maritime Museum that was created by astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth with the purpose of showing the overall brightness and size of the...

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List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events

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Great comet

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specifically the Great Pyramid of Giza. One belief originally published by Charles Piazzi Smyth in 1864 is that the Great Pyramid was not built by humans for the...

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History of archaeology

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Infrared astronomy

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astronomical sources. Radiation from the Moon was first detected in 1856 by Charles Piazzi Smyth, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, during an expedition to Tenerife...

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