'A Corrective to the Spirit of too Exclusively Pure Mathematics': Robert Smith (1689-1768) and his Prizes at Cambridge University

Annals of Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 271-316

  Barrow Green, June ^a  

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EID: 0041679714     PISSN: 00033790     EISSN: 1464505X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000337999296418     Document Type: Article

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