English lexicographer and scientific instrument maker

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Benjamin Martin. Line engraving, 1785.

Benjamin Martin. Coloured stipple engraving by R. Page, 1815.

Benjamin Martin. Line engraving.

Retailer of the sciences : Benjamin Martin's scientific instrument catalogues, 1756-1782 / by John R. Millburn; with a foreword by G. L'E. Turner.

Benjamin Martin : author, instrument-maker, and country showman / by John R. Millburn.

Benjamin Martin : author, instrument-maker, and country showman. Supplement / by John R. Millburn.

A condenser, an air-gun and a ventilator. Etching by A. Walker after B. Martin.

Pneumatics: a large kind of air pump. Engraving after B. Martin.

The young gentleman and lady's philosophy, in a continued survey of the works of nature and art ; by way of dialogue / [Benjamin Martin].

The description and use of a new, portable, table air-pump and condensing engine. With a select variety of capital experiments. Which, together with the different parts of the apparatus and glasses are illustrated by upwards of forty copper-plate figures / by Benjamin Martin.

A domestic weather-station: combined thermometer, hygrometer, and barometer. Engraving after B. Martin.

Pneumatics: two kinds of air pump. Engraving after B. Martin.

Astronomy: a young astronomer in his study, talking with his sister, who holds a book in her lap. Engraving by C. Grignion after S. Wale.

Meteorology: a view of the Earth and the sun during winter [in the Northern hemisphere]. Engraving after B. Martin.

Meteorology: a view of the Earth and the sun during summer [in the Northern hemisphere]. Engraving after B. Martin.

Astronomy: a large orrery, mounted on a dodecahedral base, decorated with signs of the zodiac. Engraving after B. Martin.

Astronomy: a mechanism for a model of the motion of a comet. Engraving after B. Martin.

Philosophia Britannica: or, a new ... system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy and geography. In a course of twelve lectures, with notes ... The whole collected and methodized from all the principal authors, and public memoirs to the present year; and embellished with eighty-one copper-plates / By B. Martin.

Bibliotheca technologica : or, a philological library of literary arts and sciences / [Benjamin Martin].

A sure guide to distillers, and all dealers in spiritous liquors, for discovering the true proportion of water and alchohol [sic] in any ... compound; and how to make it exactly proof, by a new-constructed hydrometer / [Benjamin Martin].

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.

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Bibliotheca technologica : or, a philological library of literary arts and sciences / [Benjamin Martin].

Astronomy: a young astronomer in his study, talking with his sister, who holds a book in her lap. Engraving by C. Grignion after S. Wale.

A sure guide to distillers, and all dealers in spiritous liquors, for discovering the true proportion of water and alchohol [sic] in any ... compound; and how to make it exactly proof, by a new-constructed hydrometer / [Benjamin Martin].

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.

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Benjamin Martin

Images from the collections

Images by Benjamin Martin

Images featuring Benjamin Martin

Works from the collections

Bibliotheca technologica : or, a philological library of literary arts and sciences / [Benjamin Martin].

Astronomy: a young astronomer in his study, talking with his sister, who holds a book in her lap. Engraving by C. Grignion after S. Wale.

A sure guide to distillers, and all dealers in spiritous liquors, for discovering the true proportion of water and alchohol [sic] in any ... compound; and how to make it exactly proof, by a new-constructed hydrometer / [Benjamin Martin].

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.

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