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William SmellieWilliam Smellie (1740-1795) was a Scottish encyclopedist and naturalist and the editor of the first edition of Encyclopędia Britannica (1768-1771). The Encyclopędia Britannica was first published by three Scotsmen. Its mix of longer treatises interspersed with dictionary-type entries on a wide variety of topics proved popular. Smellie was a brilliant scholar and a notorious drunk. The contents of this article are licensed from Wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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