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E (Stack)Martin, B.
An Essay on Visual Glasses, (Vulgarly called Spectacles) wherein it is shewn, from the Principles of Optics, and the Nature of the Eye, that the common Structure of those Glasses is contrary to the Rules of Art, to the Nature of Things, etc. and very prejudicial to the Eyes. The Nature of Vision in the Eye explained, and Glasses of a new Construction proposed. The Whole illustrated by a large Copper-Plate Print
4th ed. London: Printed for the Author, 1758. 4to.
[Unknown]
1758
file U (Stack)Martin, B.
Various Titles
1. The Theory of the Universal Pantagraph ... 2. The Use of the Sliding Rule in Arithmetical Tiber Surveying Operations. and Geometary. 3. Description of a New Construction and Application of a Portable Apparatus of Microscopic Instruments; Bound together, printed for, and sold by B. Martin. Also contains Catalogue of Philosophical, Optical, and Mathematical Instruments made and sold by ...
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
file U (Stack)Martin, B.
Uraniscope 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
Printed by the author, and sold at his shop in Fleet Street no. 171 (Price six pence). London: n.d. [c.1776]. Photocopy.
[1974-73]
1776?
S (Stack)Martin, B.
Philosophia Britannica: or a New and Comprehensive System of the Newtonian Philosophy, Astronomy and Geography in a Course of Twelve Lectures, with Notes containing ... proofs ... in every Branch of Natural Science. ...
The Whole collected and methodized from all the principal Authors, and public Memoirs to the present Year; and embellish'd with Seventy-five Copper-Plates. In two volumes (the second containing the plates). Reading, Printed by C. Micklewright and Co. for the Author, and others. 1747. 8vo. Formerly the property of T. Hanbury
[1941- ]
1747
U (Stack)Martin, B.
The Astronomy and Geography of Transits, and the Principles of Calculation, illustrated and applied to the ensuing Transit of Venus in 1769; with the Construction and Use of a Transit Globe for that purpose. Embellished with Three large Copper Plates, and a Map of the Great South Sea
London: Printed for and sold by the Author in Fleet-Street, (no. 171) and by all Booksellers in City and Country. n.d. [c.1746]. 8vo. R. S. Clay's copy (purchase)
[1949- ]
1746?
U (Stack)Martin, B.
Optical Essays, ...
London: Printed for, and sold by the Author in Fleet-Street, n.d. Bound with Martin, Air-Pump, and other works.
[Unknown]
[n.d.]
U (Stack)Martin, B.
Institutions of Astronomical Calculations
See "The Astronomy and Geography of Transits" (Part II of the above work).
[1949- ]
[n.d.]
Radcliffe Tracts 77 (9)Martin, B.
An Essay on Visual Glasses, (Vulgarly called Spectacles) Wherein it is shewn From the Principles of Optics, and the Nature of the Eye, that the common Structure of those Glasses is contrary to the Rules of Art, to the Nature of Things, &c. and very prejudicial to the Eyes; The Nature of Vision in the Eye explained, and Glasses of a New Construction proposed. The Whole illustrated by a large Copper-Plate-Print
The Third Edition. London: Printed for the Author, and sold at his House, two Doors below Crane-Court, Fleet-Street. 1758. (Includes separately paginated addendum entitled "Directions For the Use of the General Apparatus of Optical Instruments" (pp. 1-3) followed by a general catalogue (pp. 4-8) [see separate entries]).
[1934-41]
1758
Radcliffe Tracts 77 (9)Martin, B.
"Directions For the Use of the General Apparatus of Optical Instruments"
in An Essay on Visual Glasses, (Vulgarly called Spectacles) ... (London, 1758), separately paginated addendum (pp. 1-3) following p. 24. Followed by a general catalogue (pp. 4-8) [see separate entry].
[1934-41]
1758