144 results filtered with: Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782
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Biographia philosophica. Being an account of the lives, writings, and inventions, of the most eminent philosophers and mathematicians who have flourished from the earliest ages of the world to the present time / By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1764- Books
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The principles of perspective, explained in a genuine theory, and applied in an extensive practice; with the construction and uses of all such instruments as are subservient to the purposes of this science. By Robert Bradberry.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1795?]- Books
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Institutions of astronomical calculations; containing a survey of the solar system, ... With a description of two new pieces of mechanism for exhibiting artificial views of such transits. ... By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1773- Books
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Philosophia Britannica: or, a new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy, and geography, in a course of twelve lectures, with notes; Containing the Physical, Mechanical, Geometrical, and Experimental Proofs and Illustrations of all the Principal Propositions in every Branch of Natural Science: Also, A particular Account of the Invention, Structure, Improvement and Uses of all the considerable Instruments, Engines, and Machines; With New Calculations relating to their Nature, Power, and Operation. The whole collected and methodized from all the principal authors, and Public Memoirs; and embellished with eighty-one copper-plates. By B. Martin. ...
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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An explanation of a new construction and improvement of the sea octant and sextant, containing, A most easy, expeditious and accurate Method of adjusting and rectifying those Instruments for Use both at Sea and Land. Also the best Disposition of the Glasses; with Directions for making the Fore and Back Observations; and the several Steps in the Process of finding the Longitude at Sea. Illustrated by four Copper-Plates. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1775?]- Books
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An essay on the nature and wonderful properties of island crystal, respecting its manifold and unusual refraction of light.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1770?]- Books
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Bibliotheca technologica: or, a philological library of literary arts and sciences. Viz. I. Theology; or the First Principles of Natural Religion. II. Ethics, or Morality; the Doctrine of Moral Virtues. III. Christianity; or the Substance of the Christian Religion. IV. Judaism; or the Religion and State of the Jews. V. Mahometanism; or the Life, Religion, and Polity of Mahomet. VI. Gentilism; or the Deities and Religion of the Heathen. Vii. Mythology; or an Explanation of Fabulous Histories. Viii. Grammar and Language, particularly of the English Tongue. IX. Rhetoric and Oratory; or the Art of Speaking eloquently. X. Logic; or the Art of Reasoning and persuasion. XI. Ontology; or the Science of Being abstractedly considered. XII. Poetry; or the Art of making Verses or Poems. XIII. Criticism; or Art of judging well of Men and Things. XIV. Geography; or a Description of the World. XV. Chronology; or the Doctrine of Time. XVI. History; with the Original of Nations and Kingdoms. XVII. Physiology; or Science of Natural Philosophy. XVIII. Botany; or the Doctrine of Plants and Vegetables. XIX. Anatomy; or a Description of the Parts of an Human Body. XX. Pharmacy; or the Art of making Medicines. XXI. Medicine; or the Theory of Physic and Diseases. XXII. Polity and Oeconomics; or the Doctrine of Society and Government. XXIII. Jurisprudence; or the Knowledge of Law or Right. XXIV. Heraldry; or Art of Blazoning Coat-Armour. XXV. Miscellanies: An Account of the Mathematical Arts and Sciences. By Benj. Martin, Author of The Philosophical Grammar, &c.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Books
The general magazine of arts and sciences ... / By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782Date: [1755-1757]- Books
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The mariner's mirror; or, a new treatise on navigation, in theory and practice. Part I. Contains the principles of navigation, in a Method more universal than any extant, including the fundamental Theorems of Nautical Astronomy; Correction of the Lunar Parallax; Tables of Meridional Parts adapted to the Figure of the Earth; with a new Construction of several Nautical Scales, and other Instruments. Part II. A Method of Finding the Longitude of a Ship at Sea; and The Place and Latitude of the Moon by Interpolation. Part III. A System of Logarithms in all the different Kinds, with their Applications; illustrated by the Logistic Curve at large; with the Construction and Delineation of all the Logarithmic Lines and Scales. Part IV. The young trigonometer's new guide; with Laws and Rules of the Stereographic Projection of the Sphere explained. Illustrated with eight copper-plates. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1782]- Books
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A plain and familiar introduction to the Newtonian experimental philosophy, In Six Sections, Illustrated by Six Copper-Plates. Designed for the Use of such Gentlemen and Ladies As would acquire A Competent Knowledge of this Science, without Mathematical Learning; And more especially those who have, or may attend the author's course of Lectures and Experiments On these Subjects. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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The description and use of an orrery of a new construction, Representing in the various Parts of its Machinery all the Motions and Phoenomena of the Planetary System; To which is subjoin'd a mathematical theory For calculating the Wheel-Work to the greatest Degree of Exactness. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1771]- Books
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The philosophical grammar : being a view of the present state of experimented physiology, or, natural philosophy. In four parts. ... / By Benj. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1778- Books
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The description and use of a table-clock upon a new construction ... Invented, made, and sold by the author / [Benjamin Martin].
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782Date: 1770?]- Books
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A description of the nature, construction, and use of the Torricellian, or simple barometer. With a scale of rectification for estimating the true altitude of the column of mercurcy (equal to the Weight of the Atmosphere) to the Hundredth Part of an Inch. Also The Theory and Construction of the Compound Barometer; the Nature and Use of the Thermometer, and Hygrometer. With an appendix. Containing an Analytical Solution of a Barometrical Problem. The whole illustrated by Copper-Plate Figures of the several Instruments. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Miscellaneous correspondence, containing ... By Benjamin Martin.
Date: MDCCLVI-MDCCLXIV [1756-1764]- Books
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A new and comprehensive system of mathematical institutions, agreeable to the present state of the Newtonian mathesis. ... . Containing the Institutes, or Principles of I. Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal. II. Logarithms. III. Algebra. IV. Geometry. V. Of Plain Trigonometry. VI. Of Conic Sections. Vii. Fluxions. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]-64- Books
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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.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The description and use of a graphical perspective and microscope, For drawing all Kinds of Objects in true Perspective, and a just Proportion of their Parts, with Readiness and Ease. To which is added, A short Account of an Opake solar microscope. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1771]- Books
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Thermometrum magnum: or, grand standard thermometer. Expressing all degrees of heat and cold, from that with which Mercury boils, to that which congeals it into solid Metal. To which are adjusted the celebrated scales of Sir Isaac Newton, Fahrenheit, De L'Isle, and Reaumur, for comparing observations made in every part of the globe, and in all Degrees of Temperature in the Air, or any other Bodies. The whole delineated on, and illustrated by, a large copper-plate. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1772- Books
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Directions for the use of a new hydrostatic ballance.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1775?]- Books
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Élémens des sciences et des arts littéraires / traduits de l'anglois [by P.F. de Puisieux].
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782Date: 1756- Books
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The description and use of both the globes, the armillary sphere, and orrery, exemplified in a large and select variety of problems in astronomy, geography, dialling, navigation, spherical trigonometry, chronology, &c. Also, A New Construction of each Globe, by an Apparatus exhibiting the Phaenomena of the Earth and Heavens exactly as they are, and adapting the same to every Age of the World. The second edition corrected, and enlarged with the Addition of many useful Subjects; and an appendix of chronology, or the Doctrine of Time. The whole embellished with five copper plates of the Instruments, &c. By Benj. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1773?]- Books
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Optical essays, Containing, I. A practical description of the several sorts of single, solar, and compound microscops; with their apparatus, and latest improvments. II. The nature of vision in insects demonstrated by microscopic observations. III. A catalogue of all principal microscopic objects. IV. The use of the reflecting telescope as an universal perspective for viewing every sort of object in the greatest perfection. V. The manner of computing the magnifying power in single and double microscopes. VI. A new method of applying a micrometer to take the dimension: of small objects. VII. An illustration of the whole in a great variety of figures on a large copper-plate. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1761?]- Books
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Logarithmologia or the whole doctrine of logarithms, common and logistical, in theory and practice. In three parts / [Benjamin Martin].
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782Date: 1740- Books
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The principles of perspective, explained in a genuine theory, and applied in an extensive practice ; with the construction and uses of all such instruments as are subservient to the purposes of this science. By Robert Bradberry.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: M,DCC,XC [1790]