Charles Piazzi Smyth
1819 - 1900
- Born
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03 January 1819
Naples, Italy
- Died
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21/02/1900
Clova, near Ripon
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 11/06/1857
- Fields of Interest
- Astronomy
- Relationships
- Named after Giuseppe Piazzi FRS, his godfather; son of Admiral William Henry Smyth FRS; brother of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth FRS; married (1855) Jessie Duncan (d 1896)
- Catalogue
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Author of
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Unpublished paper, 'Attempt to apply instrumental measurement to the zodiacal light' by Charles Piazzi Smyth
Creator: Charles Piazzi Smyth Reference number: AP/30/18 -
Unpublished tables, relating to 'On supra-annual cycles of temperature in the Earth's surface crust' by C P [Charles Piazzi] Smyth
Creator: Charles Piazzi Smyth Reference number: AP/52/7 -
Unpublished paper, 'On supra-annual cycles of temperature in the Earth's surface crust' by C P [Charles Piazzi] Smyth
Creator: Charles Piazzi Smyth Reference number: AP/52/11 -
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Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Attempt to apply instrumental measurement to the zodiacal light' by Charles Piazzi Smyth
Creator: George Biddell Airy Reference number: RR/1/229 -
Referee's report by John Frederick William Herschel, on a paper 'Astronomical experiment on the peak of Teneriffe, carried out under the sanction of the lords commissioners of the admiralty' by Charles Piazzi Smyth
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: RR/3/251
Recipient of
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Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Charles Piazzi Smyth, dated at [Collingwood]
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/14/30
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
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