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Smellie, William (printer)

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Smellie, William (1740-1795)

British printer and scientist. One of his first literary undertakings was the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, entirely planned and compiled by him. He translated Georges-Louis Buffon's Natural History in 1781. He was author of The Philosophy of Natural History (1790-99). Smellie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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