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Smyth, William Henry

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BornWestminster, London, England, 21 January 1788

DiedAylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, 9 September 1865

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  • Brück, Hermann A. and Mary T. Brück (1988). The Peripatetic Astronomer: The Life of Charles Piazzi Smyth. Bristol: Adam Hilger.

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  • Dreyer, J. L. E. and H. H. Turner (eds.) (1923). History of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1820–1920. London: Royal Astronomical Society. (Reprint, Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.)

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  • Fletcher, Isaac (1866). “Admiral William Henry Smyth.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 26: 121–129.

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  • Jeal, Tim (1989). Baden-Powell. London: Hutchison. (Appendix 1 of this work provides a full account of Smyth’s ancestry and another of Smyth’s grandchildren with interesting ancestral ties to Nevil Maskelyne.)

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  • Knobel, E. B. (1880). “Notes on a Paper entitled ‘An Examination of the Double-Star Measures of the Bedford Catalogue,’ by S. W. Burnham, Esq.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 40: 532–557.

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  • Smyth, William Henry (1844). A Cycle of Celestial Objects. Vol. 1, Prolegomea; Vol. 2, The Bedford Catalogue. London: privately printed. 2nd ed., enlarged by G. F. Chambers, London, 1881.

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  • — (1986). The Bedford Catalogue, from A Cycle of Celestial Objects. With Foreword by George Lovi. Richmond, Virginia: Willmann-Bell.

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  1. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Mary T. Brück

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Brück, M.T. (2014). Smyth, William Henry. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_1294

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