The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Philosophy Faculty Scholarship Philosophy 2019 The Legacy of a 'Living Library': The rT ansatlantic Reception of John Smith Derek A. Michaud University of Maine,
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[email protected] 30 April 2016 Revised 11 February 2018 John Smith (1618-1652) has never escaped the attention of scholars in fields as diverse as the history of philosophy, religious studies, theology, literature, history of science and mathematics. Smith’s name appears, as often as not in a footnote crediting him with inspiring some other better-known figure, in a broad scholarly literature and it has for several centuries. Early Continental accounts of the Platonists of Cambridge often do not include Smith. This is most likely because, unlike others in this group, only his discourse on prophecy was translated into Latin and it is among his less philosophical work.