Author: Adams, George.
Title: A TREATISE DESCRIBING THE CONSTRUCTION, AND EXPLAINING THE USE, OF NEW CELESTIAL AND TERRESTIAL GLOBES. Designed to illustrate, In the most Easy and Natural Manner, The Phoenomena of the Earth and Heavens, And to shew the Correspondence of the Two Spheres. With a great Variety of Astronomical and Geographical problems. By ... Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty
Description: London : printed for and sold by the author, at Tycho Brahe's Head, (no 60.) in Fleet-Street,, 1769. The second edition, in which a comprehensive view of the solar system is given; and the Use of the Globes is farther shewn in the Explanation of Spherical Triangles. xxviii,345,[7]p. With half title. 14 plates including 12 folding. Light age toning, contemporary speckled calf with double gilt rule to edges, minor marking and surface wear, sm. puncture hole to lower board, gilt rule edged raised bands to spine with sl. loss to head and tail. ¶ Ex.-libris Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale, (1857–1944) English peer and sportsman. ESTC T53466. ODNB ‘Adams family (per. 1734–1817), makers of scientific instruments and globes, came to prominence through George Adams senior (bap. 1709, d. 1772) ... In mid-1766 he launched new 18 in. and 12 in. globes, with a Treatise describing their construction and use. The dedication to the king was contributed by Dr Samuel Johnson. The unusual form of mounting and relatively high price of Adams's globes drew scathing comments from Benjamin Martin, proprietor of the long-established Senex's globes, but they proved popular and many examples survive ...’ ‘... George Adams was the principal scientific instrument maker in the mid-eighteenth century. In 1756, he was appointed instrument maker to the Prince of Wales, the future George III, a post he continued to occupy when George became king in 1760. Adams supplied the king with many pieces of mathematical and scientific equipment, much of which is now part of the George III collection in the Science Museum in London. This is the second edition of a treatise published by Adams to describe the construction and use of his new globes. It bears a dedication to the king ...’ Royal Collections Trust.

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