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Admiral Smyth says that no family is quite civilized unless it possesses a copy of some encyclopaedia and a telescope.

William Henry Smyth

This object, which somewhat resembles a flight of wild ducks in shape, is a gathering of minute stars.

William Henry Smyth

The whole firmament, with its countless and glorious orbs, - which, though sustaining apparently independent positions, are but individual constituents of one Majesty of Creation, - in the absence of a larger comprehension, countenances the sagacity of the oft-cited ancient dogma, that "GOD WOEKS BY GEOMETRY."

William Henry Smyth

Many things, deemed Invisible to secondary instruments, are plain enough to one who 'knows how to see them'. Quoted in Thomas William Webb

William Henry Smyth

In fabricating new constellations, puerility and meanness aided blind zeal in ransacking the heavens for amorphotae, or unformed stars, wherewith to wheedle accidental rulers of the hour, by exalting them and a heterogeneous assemblage of modern implements, among the heroes and classical symbols of remote ages.

William Henry Smyth

William Henry Smyth

William Henry Smyth

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Born: January 21, 1788

Died: September 8, 1865 (aged 77)

Bio: Admiral William Henry Smyth was an English naval officer, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist.

Known for:

Ædes Hartwellianæ (1851)
Addenda to the Ædes Hartwellianae (1864)
Sidereal chromatics (1864)

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