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Fig. 3.1 Top: Charles Piazzi Smyth standing behind his telescope on the peak of
Guajara, with Mount Teide in the background. Bottom: Jessie Duncan, Piazzi Smyth’s
wife, at the encampment on Guajara. (Reproduced from Piazzi Smyth’s Teneriffe, an
Astronomer’s Experiment. Credit: ROE/RSE Archives)
3 Tenerife and Mount Teide on the Moon (1724–1914)
Fig. 3.1 Top: Charles Piazzi Smyth standing behind his telescope on the peak of
Guajara, with Mount Teide in the background. Bottom: Jessie Duncan, Piazzi Smyth’s
wife, at the encampment on Guajara. (Reproduced from Piazzi Smyth’s Teneriffe, an
Astronomer’s Experiment. Credit: ROE/RSE Archives)
3 Tenerife and Mount Teide on the Moon (1724–1914)