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Charles Smyth

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Astronomer
Died
Feb 21, 1900
Zodiac
Capricorn
Born in
NaplesItaly
About
Astronomer Royal for Scotland best known for his innovations in astronomy. He made several pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis.
Family
His' parents were named Annarella and William Henry Smyth and his godfather was the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, which is how he got his nickname of Piazzi.

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