Author:Robert Smith (1689-1768)

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Robert Smith
(1689–1768)

English mathematician and music theorist.

Robert Smith

Works

Works written

  • A Compleat System of Opticks in Four Books, viz. a Popular, a Mathematical, a Mechanical, and a Philosophical Treatise, to Which Are Added Remarks upon the Whole (1738), with Samuel Molyneux and John Hadley (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
  • Harmonics, or, The Philosophy of Musical Sounds (1749)

Works edited

Works about Smith

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