John Smith 1618-1652
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John SMITH 1618-52
Biographical Note
Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge; mathematician, and philosopher.
Books
Bequeathed his library of ca. 600 volumes to Queens’, where a contemporary inventory survives.
Sources
Hutton, Sarah. "Smith, John (1618–1652), philosopher." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. M. Feingold, The mathematicians’ apprenticeship, 1984, 53. J. Saveson, The library of John Smith, the Cambridge Platonist, Notes & Queries 203 (1958), 215-6.