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Book Title: Benjamin Martin. Book Subtitle: Author, Instrument-Maker, and ‘Country Showman’ Authors: John R. Millburn. Series Title: History of Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7882-2. Publisher: Springer Dordrecht. eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive. Copyright Information: Noordhoff International Publishing 1976
- The 1770S
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- Introduction and Early Life, 1705–35
Abstract. ‘A philosopher who was an honour to his country’;...
- Schoolmaster and Author, 1735–7
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- Itinerant Lecturer, 1740–55
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- Death and Aftermath
This (Volume III) had a title page dated 1782; it is usually...
- Dilettante and Microscope Maker, 1737–40
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- Establishment of The Fleet Street Business, 1756–9
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- Philology and The General Magazine
Benjamin Martin. Philology and the General Magazine....
- The 1770S
Abstract. ‘A philosopher who was an honour to his country’; ‘one of the most eminent mathematicians of the age’—so ran the obituary notices of Benjamin Martin, scientific instrument-maker, popular lecturer, and author, in the London newspapers of February 1782. Download to read the full chapter text.
- John R. Millburn
- 1976
Benjamin Martin, Author, Instrument-Maker, and "Country Showman." By John R. Millburn. Leyden: Noordhoff. 1976. Pp. xii+233. Fl 63. For about twenty years of the second half of the 18th century Ben-jamin Martin (1704-82) was an important London retailer of scientific instruments. Regarded by an obituarist as "one of the most eminent
May 5, 2023 · Benjamin Martin was an itinerant lecturer, instrument maker, and the author of a substantial number of textbooks mainly in the sciences. His biggest project, however, was The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences (1755–64), dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge to a broad audience.
Jan 5, 2009 · The philosophical grammar, by Benjamin Martin, фιλоτєχνος, was printed for John Noon, London, and is listed in the June 1735 Register of Books in Gentleman's magazine, v (1735), 335. Google Scholar Its preface is dated ‘from Chichester, December 14 1734’.
- John R. Millburn
- 1973
However, in a biography by John R. Millburn, Benjamin Martin: Author, Instrument-maker, and 'Country Showman* (Leyden, 1976), his linguistic career is not treated as fully as it might have been. In a period of almost 20 years (1748-66) Martin published one dictionary and two works on English grammar, all of which were later reprinted.
BENJAMIN MARTIN AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORRERY By JOHN R. MILLBURN* THE catalogues of mid-eighteenth-century mathematical instrument makers included not only instruments in the sense 'tools of science' but also devices intended primarily for educational use. Among the latter would be found mechanical models of the solar system, in varying ...
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