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John Smith

(Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680)

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• Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680: The art of painting in oil : wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery, with the best and most approved rules for the preparing, mixing, and working of oil-colours : the whole treatise being so complete and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons may be able, by these directopons to paint in oil colours ... : in which are also particularly laid down all the several circumstances required in painting of sun-dials, printed pictures, sash-windows, &c. in oil colours (Printed for J. Bew ..., 1788), also by John Bew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680: A compleat discourse of the nature, use, and right managing of that wonderful instrument, the baroscope, or, Quick-silver weather-glass in IV parts / by John Smith ... ; to which is added, the true equation of natural days, drawn up for the use of the gentry, in order to their more true adjusting, and right managing of pendulum clocks and watches. (London : Printed for Joseph Watts ..., 1688) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680: The curiosities of common water: or the advantages thereof in preventing and curing many distempers. Gather'd from the writings of several eminent physicians, and also from more than forty years experience. By John Smith, C.M. To which are added, some rules for preserving health by diet. (London : printed for J. Roberts; A. Dodd; and J. Fox, 1723) (HTML at ECCO TCP)
• Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680: The curiosities of common water; or The advantages thereof in preventing and curing many distempers. Gather'd from the writings of several eminent physicians, and also from more than forty years experience. / By John Smith, C.M. ; To which is added, some rules for preserving health by diet. ; [Two lines of verse] ([Boston] : London printed: Reprinted at Boston for Joseph Edwards, at the corner shop on the north-side of the town-house., MDCCXXV. [1725]), also by Ralph Thoresby (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680: The designed end to the Socinian controversy, or, A rational and plain discourse to prove, that no other person but the Father of Christ is God most high by John Smith. (London : [s.n.], 1695) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680: Horological dialogves in three parts shewing the nature, use, and right managing of clocks and watches : with an appendix containing Mr. Ovghtred's method for calculating of numbers : the whole being a work very necessary for all that make use of these kind of movements / by J. S. ... (London : Printed for Jonathan Edwin ..., 1675), also by William Oughtred (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680: Horological disquisitions concerning the nature of time, and the reasons why all days, from noon to noon, are not alike twenty four hours long in which appears the impossibility of a clock's being always kept exactly true to the sun : with tables of equation, and newer and better rules ... how thereby precisely to adjust royal pendulums ... : with a table of pendulums, shewing the beats that any length makes in an hour ... / by John Smith ... ; to which is added The best rules for the ordering and use both of the quick-silver and spirit weather-glasses, and Mr. S. Watson's rules for adjusting a clock by the fixed stars. (London : Printed for Richard Cumberland ..., 1694) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680: Of the unequality of natural time, with its reason and cavses. together with a table of the true æquation of natvral dayes : drawn up chiefly for the use of the gentry, in order to their more true adjusting, and right managing of pendulum clocks, and watches / by John Smith ... (London : Printed for Joseph Watts ..., 1686) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680: A short introduction to the art of painting and varnishing (London : printed for George Dawes, over against Lincolns-Inn-Gate, in Chancery-Lane, 1685) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680: Traité des vertus medicinales de l'eau commune, ou l'on fait voir qu'elle previent & guerit un infinite de maladies ... (chez Guillaume Cavelier fils ..., 1726), also by Francisco Viñals y Torrero, Marcos Viñals y Rubio, John Hancocke, and Guillaume Cavelier (page images at HathiTrust)

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