Scottish sholar and historian Thomas Blackwell was born #OTD in 1701.
Blackwell's works, including An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer (1735), Letters Concerning Mythology (1748), and Memoirs of the Court of Augustus (3 vols., 1753β63), established him as one of the premier figures in the Scottish Enlightenment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blackwell_(scholar)
Books by Thomas Blackwell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Thomas+Blackwell&submit_search=Go%21
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