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Mathematical, philosophical, and optical instruments made and sold by Heath and Wing, near Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand, London.
Heath and Wing (London, England)Date: 1765?]- Books
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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.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1800?]- Books
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Directions for the use of Hadley's quadrant, with remarks on the construction of that instrument. With considerable corrections and additions. By the Reverend Mr. Ludlam, Late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
Ludlam, William, 1717-1788.Date: [1790]- Books
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The description and use of a pocket-case of mathematical or drawing instruments: Containing, Particularly, A familiar Explanation of the Use of the Protractor, Plain Scale, Sector, Gunter's Scales, Marquoi's Parallel Scales, and the Proportional Compasses; with several Examples in Trigonometry, Arithmetic, &c. Together with plain Instructions for making several Kinds of Sun-Dials. Illustrated by copper-plates.
Meredith, Nicholas.Date: [1791]- Books
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A catalogue of optical, mathematical, and philosophical instruments, made and sold by W. and S. Jones, No.135, Holborn, London.
W. and S. Jones (Mathematical Instrument Makers)Date: 1795- Books
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The elements of optics. In four books. Book I. Simple Optics, or Direct Vision. Book II. Catoptrics, or Reflected Vision. Book III. Dioptrics, or Refracted Vision. Book IV. The Construction of Optical Instruments.
Emerson, William, 1701-1782.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Short, but plain and easy, directions for the use of Hadley's quadrant. In which care is taken not to encumber it with more than is necessary, or needless encomiums, but to render it useful to the learner; it being now so well known to the world as not to want an advocate in its praise. To which is added, a description of the vernier scale, commonly call'd nonius's division.
Date: [1755?]- Books
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A supplement to the Philosophia Britannica. Appendix I. Containing New Experiments in electricity, and The Method of making artificial magnets. Illustrated with Copper-Plates. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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Description and use of the patent military and naval telescope, for measuring distances and the extension of objects at sight; by means of a new micrometrical adjustment. Dedicated BY Permission To His Royal Highness the Duke of York. Invented by C. Rand.
Rand, Cater.Date: [1799]- Books
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The description and use of Nairne's patent electrical machine: with the addition of some philosophical experiments and medical observations.
Nairne, Edward, 1726-1806.Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]- Books
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Some account of the discovery, made by the late Mr. John Dollond, F. R. S. which led to the grand improvement of refracting telescopes, in Order to Correct some Misrepresentations, in Foreign Publications, of that Discovery: with an attempt to account for the mistake in an experiment made by Sir Isaac Newton; on which Experiment, the Improvement of the Refracting Telescope Entirely Depended. By Peter Dollond, Member of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia.
Dollond, Peter, 1730-1820.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Jean Cuff, opticien, faiseur de lunettes & de microscopes; à l'enseigne du microscope ... dans la rue de Fleet-street. Fait & vend toutes sortes d'instruments les plus curieux en optique; ...
Cuff, John, approximately 1708-1772.Date: 1744?]- Books
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Geometrical and graphical essays, containing a description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling and perspective; with many new problems, illustrative of each branch. By George Adams, Mathematical - Instrument Maker to his Majesty, and Optician to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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Tables and directions for using saccharometers, Made by T. Saunders; as referred to in a treatise on that subject, entitled, Statical estimates of the materials of Brewing, &c. &c. by Mr. John Richardson.
Richardson, John, active 1777-1798.Date: M.DCC.XCV. [1795]- Books
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The description and use of pocket cases of mathematical, or drawing instruments: Containing, Particularly, A familiar Explanation of the Use of the Protractor, Plain Scale, Sector, Gunter's Scales, Marquoi's Parallel Scales, and the Proportional Compasses; with several Examples in Trigonometry, Arithmetic, &c. Together with Plain Instructions for making the several Kinds of Sun Dials. Illustrated by copper-plates. By N. Meredith, Optical and Mathematical Instrument Maker to his Royal Highness the Duke of York.
Meredith, Nicholas.Date: [1791]- Books
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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.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1760?]- Books
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A catalogue of optical, mathematical & philosophical instruments, made and sold by J. Bidstrup, (no.36.) St. Martin's Street, Leicester Square, London: ...
Bidstrup, J.Date: 1793?]- Books
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Instructions for the use of Hadley's quadrant, containing, the principles on which that admirable instrument is constructed, with a description and use of the Nonius divisions. As made and sold by George Adams, Mathematical Instrument-Maker to his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales. At Tycho Brahe's head in Fleet-Street, between Serjeant's-Inn and Water-Lane. Where Gentlemen may be supplied with all Sorts of Mathematical Instruments for Land or Sea; Tellescopes of all Sizes for Day or Night; together with all other Optical and Philosophical Instruments of the newest Invention.
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: 1789?]- Books
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Thomas Crosby and John Robinson, At the lower End of Fair-Street, upon Horse-ly-Down, in Southwark, sell all Sorts of Carpenters, Joyners, Painters, and Artificers Rules, Guaging-Rods, Quadrants, forestaffs, Gunters, straight or sliding; plain Scales, Compasses with or without Points, Cases of Instruments neatly fitted up for the Pocket, and all other Mathematical Instruments for Sea or Land. Also Sea Atlas's, English Pilots for the Northern, Southern, Streights, Guinea, West and East-India Navigation; Sea Charts, both Plain and Mercator, for all Parts of the known World; Globes of 3, 9, 12, and 16 Inches Diameter. Likewise all Sorts of Writing-Paper, and Paper Books neatly bound and ruled for Shops or Compting-Houses, fine Cards, Leather Cases, Pocket-Books, Slates, Quills, Pens, the best Ink and Ink-Powder, Leaden and other Standishes, Blacklead-Pencils, Wax, Wafers, and all other Stationary Wares. Also Weather-Glasses carefully fitted up and made portable; and the best Spectacles, Reading-Glasses, Burning-Glasses, Telescopes, Prospects, Microscopes, and other Optic Glasses. Likewise all Sorts of Bibles, Testaments, and Common-Prayers, Psalters, Accidences, Grammars, and other School-Books: And also Books of Divinity, Law, and History, and of any other Subject. N. B. At the same Place Young Gentlemen are boarded and expeditiously taught Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Navigation, Geography, Astronomy, And other Parts of the Mathematicks: Also the Italian Method of Book-Keeping, call[e]d Merchants Accompts, with the other Methods of Book-Keeping, as practised by Merchants, Shop-Keepers, and others.
Thomas Crosby and John Robinson (Mathemtical Instruments Sellers : Southwark, England)Date: 1740?]- Books
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The description and use of a new quadrant, for finding the latitude at sea : invented and made, by Benjamin Cole, Mathematical and Optical Instrument-Maker, At the Orrery in Fleet-Street, London; Late the Shop of Mr. Thomas Wright, Instrument-Maker to his Majesty. The second edition. With an appendix, shewing some useful improvements on Cole's quadrant. Particularly Godfrey's Horizon Vane improv'd. Which furnishes the Mariner with the Means of taking an Observation easily in boisterous Weather. To which are added, Short and Plain Instructions for the Use of that most excellent Instrument, invented by John Hadley, Esq; with the Improvement of an Artificial Horizon.
Cole, Benjamin, 1695-1766.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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A catalogue of optical, philosophical, and mathematical instruments, made and sold by George Adams, mathematical instrument-maker to His Majesty, at Tycho Brahe's Head, (No. 60.) Fleet-Street, London.
Adams, George, 1709-1772.Date: 1765?]- Books
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The mariner's compass rectified. Containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, the Sun being upon any Point of the Compass: With the true Time of the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Stars, and the Points of the Compass, upon which they Rise and Set: With Tables of Amplitudes. Which Tables of Sun - Dials, Semidiurnal-Arches, and Amplitudes are calculated from the Equator to 60 Degrees of Latitude, either North or South. With the Description and Use of those Instruments most in Use in the Art of Navigation. Also a Table of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. By Andrew Wakeley [sic], Mathematician. Enlarged with many useful additions, by J. Atkinson. The whole revised, and carefully corrected, with accurate tables of the Sun's Declination, adjusted to the New-Stile. By William Mountaine, F.R.S.
Wakely, Andrew.Date: 1757- Books
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Edward Nairne optical, philosophical, and mathematical instrument-maker, ... = Edouard Nairne, opticien & faiseur d'instrumens philosophiques & mathematiques, ...
Nairne, Edward, 1726-1806.Date: 1770?]- Books
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Preston and Son, musical instrument makers, music-printers, publishers, and dealers in second-hand musical instruments, at their wholesale warehouses, No. 97, Strand, and Exeter 'change, London, manufacture and sell the following, with every other article in the music branch, wholesale, retail, and for exportation: Chamber organs Barrel organs Harpsichords spinnets Piano-fortes Grand piano-fortes ... Harpsichord and spinnet hammers Crow and raven quills Desks for harpsichords New-invented portable music-desks Rosin boxex, wood or ivory Mutes, brass, box, or ivory Mouth-pieces for French horns or trumpets, brass or ivory Mouth-pieces for German flutes Pens to rule music paper Ruled books of all sizes Ruled paper of all sorts Bows for violins, kits, tenors, violoncellos, and viol de gambos Bridges for violins, kits, tenors, violoncellos, viol de gambos, guittars, &c. Pags or pins, and tail-pieces for do. Hinges and locks for harpsichords and spinnets Reeds for bassoons, hautboys, clarionets, vauxhumanes, and bagpipes Cases for reeds ------ for flutes and hautboys ------ for violins, violoncellos and guittars also import the best Italian and Roman strings for violins, tenors, mandolines, violoncellos, double basses, welch harps, &c. German wire for harpsichords, spinnets, piano-fortes, guittars, &c. Italian catgut and wire strings, silvered in the compleatest manner, and well proportioned for violins, basses, guittars, and piano-fortes. Harpsichords, Piano Fortes, and spinnets let out by the month, quarter, or year; and tuned in town and country, by the year, quarter, or per time, on the shortest notice. - Musical instruments repaired in the nearest manner.
Preston and Son (Musical instrument makers : London, England)Date: 1790]- Books
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The general and particular principles of animal electricity and magnetism, &c. in which are found Dr. Bell's secrets and practice, AS Delivered To His Pupils In Paris, London, Dublin, Bristol, Glocester, Worcester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. &c. Shewing how to Magnetise and Cure different Diseases; to produce Crises, as well as Somnambulism, or Sleep-Walking; and in that State of Sleep to make a Person eat, drink, walk, sing and play upon any Instruments they are used to, &c. to make Apparatus and other Accessaries to produce Magnetical Facts; also to Magnetise Rivers, Rooms, Trees, and other Bodies, animate and inanimate; to raise the Arms, Legs of a Person awake, and to make him rise from his Chair; to raise the Arm of a Person absent from one Room to another; also to treat him at a Distance. All the New Experiments and Phenomena are explained by Monsieur le Docteur Bell, Professor of that Science, And Member of the Philosophical Harmonic Society at Paris, Fellow Correspondent of M. Le Court de Geblin's Museum; and the only Person authorised by Patent from the First Noblemen in France, to teach and practise that Science in England, Ireland, &c. Price Five Shillings.
Bell, John, Professor of Animal Magnetism.Date: 1792