Mathematician:William Marshall Smart
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Mathematician
Scottish astronomer who authored the famous Textbook on Spherical Astronomy.
Nationality
Scottish
History
- Born: 9 March 1889 in Doune, Perthshire, Scotland
- Died: 17 September 1975 in Lancaster, England
Publications
- 1928: The Sun, the Stars and the Universe
- 1928: Astrophysics: the characteristics and evolution of the stars
- 1931: Textbook on Spherical Astronomy
- 1932: Stellar Motions
- 1937: Astronomy
- 1938: Stellar dynamics
- 1942: Foundations of Astronomy
- 1942: Introduction to Sea & Air Navigation
- 1944: Astronomical Navigation: A Handbook for Aviators
- 1950: Some famous stars
- 1953: Celestial Mechanics
- 1956: Foundations of Analytical Geometry
- 1958: Combination of Observations
- 1959: The Origin of the Earth
- 1968: Stellar Kinematics
- 1970: The Riddle of the Universe
- 1976: Textbook on Spherical Astronomy, 6th ed.