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He was born in Doune to Peter Fernie Smart and Isabella Marshall Harrower.
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This well-established textbook gives a general but comprehensive introduction to positional astronomy. Originally based on the author's lecture courses at Cambridge University, it is intended primarily for undergraduates, but, due to its comprehensive nature, it is a very useful reference text for research workers in many branches of astronomy and space physics. The author considers the night sky as the celestial sphere and powerfully exploits the methods of spherical geometry. Most problems in which the precise determination of a heavenly body's position in the sky is important are considered in theoretical detail, and the necessary formulae are derived to a precision that is sufficient for all but the most specialist purposes. The present revision has ensured that the terminology and treatment correspond precisely to current astronomical practice. A guiding principle has been to re-establish compatibility with the Astronomical Ephemeris and, to a lesser extent, with the fuller explanations of the Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Ephemeris and the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. Fairly frequent comments added to the text indicate the sometimes modified relevance of the subject matter to modern astronomy. A number of additional exercises help to illustrate the new material.
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He was born in Doune to Peter Fernie Smart and Isabella Marshall Harrower.
He was educated at the McLaren High School, in Callander, and graduated Master of Arts from Glasgow University in 1910 in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.
He served in the Royal Navy during World War I as an instructor in navigation (Registered Nurse College Greenwich 1915, HMS Emperor of India 1916-1919) and then returned to Cambridge in 1919 as a lecturer in Mathematics and John Couch Adams Astronomer (1921–1937). With Commander FN Shearme, he wrote the Admiralty Manual of Navigation (1922). From 1937 to 1959 he was Regius Professor of Astronomy at Glasgow University.
The first edition of his Text-Book on Spherical Astronomy (later co-authored) appeared in 1931.
During World World War II, Smart published four volumes on sea and air navigation that became textbooks in the armed services. His output was impressive writing more than twenty academic books during his career, and was recognised as a leader in his field
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He was President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1949 to 1951, and was a member of the Royal Institute of Navigation.