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Mary Smith demands accuracy (and pure air) in this week’s Transcribe Tuesday.

Each week, on #TranscribeTuesday, we share work created by digital volunteers in the Transcription Center. That’s not a mystery, but who was Mary Smith? We’re not entirely sure! Transcribe this project, shared by smithsonianlibraries and perhaps we’ll learn more about whether she was a wealthy or well-connected British woman. Mary Smith’s Commonplace Book Concerning Science and Mathematics is a two volume hand-written manuscript, which dates from around 1769-1780, and summarizes science, math, medicine, religion and more.

New hero: the mysterious Mary Smith. (She’s rightly compared to Thomasina Coverly in this blog post.)