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SMYTH, Charles Piazzi (1819-1900). Report on the Teneriffe Astronomical Experiment of 1856, addressed to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. London: Richard Taylor, 1858 [but preface dated February 1859]. 4° (287 x 228mm). Additional title with mounted photographed "Stereoscopic map of the Peak and Great Crater of Teneriffe from a Model by J. Nasymth", illustrations and tables, 10 lithographed plates and one inset photographed plate of "The Alta-Vista Observatory" at the end (some very light mainly marginal browning and staining). Contemporary (?original) green cloth gilt (short sections lacking from head and foot of spine with loss of a few letters, extremities rubbed). Provenance: House of Commons Library (bookplate and blindstamped armorial on covers).
Whilst on his honeymoon in 1856, Charles Piazzi Smyth's pioneering observations from his own Alta-Vista Observatory on the peaks of Tenerife, using a fine 74 inch equatorial telescope, and at over 10,000 feet above sea level, established the astronomical advantages of an observatory at high altitude
Whilst on his honeymoon in 1856, Charles Piazzi Smyth's pioneering observations from his own Alta-Vista Observatory on the peaks of Tenerife, using a fine 74 inch equatorial telescope, and at over 10,000 feet above sea level, established the astronomical advantages of an observatory at high altitude
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