English astronomer
Edward Pigott |
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| Born | 1753 |
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| Died | 1825 |
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| Nationality | British |
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| Scientific career |
| Fields | Astronomy |
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Edward Pigott (1753–1825) was an English astronomer notable for being one of the founders of the study of variable stars.[1][2][3][4]
- ^ Clerke, Agnes Mary (1896). "Pigott, Edward". In S. Lee (ed.). Pigott, Edward. Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 45. London, England: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 283.
- ^ McConnell, Anita (2004). "Pigott, Nathaniel". Pigott, Nathaniel (1725–1804), astronomer. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22254.
- ^ Kopal, Zdeněk (1974). "Pigott, Edward, and Pigott, Nathaniel". In Gillispie, C. C. (ed.). Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 10. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. pp. 607–608.
- ^ McConnell, A.; Brech, A. (1999). "Nathaniel and Edward Pigott, Itinerant Astronomers". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 53 (3). Royal Society of London: 305–318. doi:10.1098/rsnr.1999.0084. S2CID 145568378.