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.
- Feingold, M. The mathematicians’ apprenticeship, 1984, 53.
- Saveson, J. The library of John Smith, the Cambridge Platonist, Notes & Queries 203 (1958), 215-6.