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Smellie’s school of dreams
By
Robert Moss
He was the first editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and his racy style and talent for aphorisms made it an immediate popular success. He was a friend of the poet Robert Burns, who described him as “that old Veteran in Genius, Wit and Bawdry.” Scientist, writer, master printer, natural philosopher, encyclopedist, bon vivant, William Smellie…
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