Author:Charles Piazzi Smyth

Charles Piazzi Smyth
(1817–1900)

Charles Piazzi Smyth

Works

• 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.  (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.  (external scan)
• Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1868). On the Antiquity of Intellectual Man: From a Practical and Astronomical Point of View. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.  (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, 22 (December 1882)

Articles in Littell's Living Age

• "On the Coming Winter" in Littell's Living Age, 135 (1746) (1877)

Works about Smyth

• "Smyth, Charles Piazzi," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 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.