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SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 268 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768) , English mathematician, was born in 168g, probably at Lea near
Gainsborough
 . After attending Leicester grammar school he entered Trinity College, Cam-bridge, in 1708, and becoming
minor
  fellow in 1714, major fellow in 1715 and senior fellow in 1739, was chosen master in 1942, in succession to Richard Bentley. From 1716 to 1760 he was Plumian professor of astronomy, and he died in the master's
lodge
  at Trinity on the end of February 1768. Besides editing two works by his
cousin
 , Roger
Cotes
 , who was his predecessor in the Plumian chair, he published A Compleat System of Opticks in 1738, which gained him the sobriquet of " Old
Focus
 ," and Harmonics, or the Philosophy of Musical Sounds in 1749. He was the founder of the
Smith
 's prizes at
Cambridge
 , having by his will left 3500 South Sea, stock to the university, a portion of the
interest
  from which was to be divided yearly between the two junior B.A.'s who had made the greatest progress in mathematics and natural philosophy.


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