\"Planets and Stars\" Charles Hugh Smiley Signed TLS Dated 1973 for Sale

\"Planets and Stars\" Charles Hugh Smiley Signed TLS Dated 1973 For Sale

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Charles

Hugh Smiley (September 6,

1903 – July 26, 1977) was an American astronomer and academic, and the author

of column on astronomy, “Planets and Stars” (Providence Journal,

1938–1957). The main belt asteroid 1613 Smiley is named after him. He was considered “one of

the world’s leading authorities on eclipses.”

Born in Camden, Missouri, he attended UCLA and UC Berkeley, where he earned a mathematics degree. He received

an MA in mathematics from Berkeley (1925) and a PhD from the same university

(1927). He taught mathematics at the University

of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (1927-9) and worked at

the Royal Greenwich Observatory as

a Guggenheim Fellow (1929–30).

He worked as a professor of mathematics at Brown University from 1930 onwards. He was director

of Ladd Observatory and

served as chairman of the Department of Astronomy from 1938 until his

retirement. Smiley led expeditions to South America, Canada, Asia,

and the US to study solar eclipses and observed the solar eclipse of July 20,

1963 from a U.S. Air Force F-104D Starfighter supersonic aircraft that

was "racing the moon's shadow" at 1,300 mph (2,100 km/h)

extending the duration of totality.[4] He also conducted several expeditions between

1947 and 1952 to study “atmospheric refraction at low angular altitudes.” He also studied the Mayan calendar, and “was able to date the Mayan Codices of

Dresden, Paris, and Madrid from astronomical dates which they contained.” When 1570 Brunonia was discovered on October 9, 1948, by Sylvain Julien Victor

Arend at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle, Belgium, Arend wrote to Smiley: This planet is named in

honor of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. ... Its astronomical

history dates back to the transit of Venus in 1769, observed by Prof. Benjamin West. Two local

streets are named Planet and Transit. The naming of the planet is also a

tribute to the international reputation of Dr. Smiley.