Benjamin Martin English lexicographer and scientific instrument maker
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782
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Works
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The description and use of a case of mathematical instruments : Particularly of all the lines contained on the plain scale, the sector, the gunter, and the proportional compasses. With a practical application exemplified in many useful cases of geometry, and plain and spherical trigonometry. The whole illustrated by copper-plate figures. By Benjamin Martin. | |
The description and use of an universal microscope, answering all the purposes of single, compound, opake, and aquatic microscopes : with particular directions for the use and application of every part of a full and compleat apparatus, as represented and illustrated in a large copper plate | |
The description and use of an universal sliding rule : Which, by means of single and double slides, and the addition of proper lines, is adapted to answer all question in arithmetic, mixt-mathematics, and philosophy, in the most easy and expeditious manner, as shewn in sixty examples of principal utility in the practical parts of science. By Benjamin Martin. | |
An essay on the genuine construction of a standard microscope and telescope : With the application of a prismatic or catadioptric eye-piece to refracting and reflecting telescopes, by which their lengths are much contracted, their fields of view encreased, and their uses greatly facilitated; particularly in the reflector of Cassegrain's form for celestial observations. By B. Martin. | |
Horologia Nova : Or, The new art of dialling in theory and practice. In which is demonstrated, that all the variety in this science consists in the construction of three dials only. Also, the rationale and use of the lines of latitudes and hours, on the dialling-sector and trigon, with all requisite calculations. The whole illustrated in a large copper-plate. By B. Martin. | |
Uraniscopium magnum, or The nature, construction, and use of the grand uraniscope : Being a new construction of an equatorial telescope, which, by clock-work, and a planetary pendulum, becomes an automaton, and renders all the heavenly bodies stationary to the view. By B. Martin. |