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Smith

Andrew Smith, a doctor and traveller who explored southern Africa. Darwin talked with him at the Cape of Good Hope.

The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin

Explained in

• The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin
• Men of Invention and Industry, Samuel Smiles

  Francis Pettit Smith (1808–1874) was an English farmer and inventor who got the screw propeller adopted on sea-going ships.

• Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work, Herbert Casson

  Abraham Smith, a farmer who watched the reaper demonstrated near Staunton. According to Casson, in 1840 he was the first to buy a McCormick reaper.

• The Psychology of the Stock Market, J. C. Selden

  A made-up name from Selden's example of a dispute between two people who remember one verbal agreement differently. Not a real person.

• Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann

  John Smith, a hypothetical character from the newspaperman's example that Lippmann quotes to show how news is born.

• A Conflict of Visions, Thomas Sowell

  Adam Smith (1723–1790), a Scottish philosopher and economist, author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations.

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