The British Musical Biography

[E] Smith, Robert, writer, was born at
Cambridge, in 1689. He was Plumian Pro-
fessor of Astronomy at Cambridge, and be-
came Master of Trinity College in 1742. He
died at Cambridge in 1768. He wrote
" Harmonics, or the philosophy of musical
sounds," Cambridge, 1749 ; 2nd edition, en-
larged, London, 1759. A Postscript upon
the changeable hurpsichord, a perfect in-
strument, London, 1762.

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