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RE: Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819 - 1900)

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Charles Piazzi Smyth, the second Astronomer Royal for Scotland, died on this day in 1900.
The astronomer, who was born in Naples in 1819, was appointed to the role as director of the Royal Observatory on Calton Hill in 1946, when he also became professor of astronomy at the University of Edinburgh.
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Charles Piazzi Smyth (3 January 1819 - 21 February 1900), was 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.
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