A treatise describing the construction, and explaining the use of new celestial and terrestrial 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 George Adams, Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty. and the Use of the Globes is farther shewn in the Explanation of Spherical Triangles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, George, 1709-1772.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globes--1777.

Globes.

Physical Description:

xxviii,345 pages, 1 unnumbered page,14 pages,plates ; 8⁰

Edition:

The fourth edition, in which a comprehensive view of the solar system is given; ..

Place of Publication:

London : printed for and sold by the author, at Tycho Brahe's Head, No. 60, in Fleet-Street, M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

With a half-title.

Includes: 'A catalogue of mathematical, philosophical, and optical instruments, made under the inspection and direction of George Adams'.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N13723.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.