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William Smellie
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Standard Name: Smellie, William,, 1740 - 1795
Connections
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Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | |
Literary responses | Maria Riddell | William Smellie
(himself a naturalist and translator of |
Textual Production | Maria Riddell | Robert Burns
helped her to achieve publication, writing to the Edinburgh printer and man of letters William Smellie
on 22 January 1792 that her poems were always correct and sometimes elegant, very much beyond the... |
Travel | Maria Riddell | Early in their Scottish life, MR
and her husband visited Edinburgh to meet the printer and man of letters William Smellie
. Their several visits to London included nearly two months in autumn 1793, which... |
Timeline
1749: The philosophe Buffon began publishing his...
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1749
The philosopheBuffon
began publishing his Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, one of the great Enlightenment collaborative projects for the advancement of learning.
8 June 1768: A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland issued...
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8 June 1768
A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland issued proposals for printing by subscription a work to be called Encyclopædia Britannica, to be edited by the man of letters William Smellie
.
1780: Man of letters William Smellie published...
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1780
Man of letters William Smellie
published an English translation of Buffon
's famous Natural History.
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