George Sr. Adams

British mathematical instrument maker and science writer (c. 1709–1772)

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Micrographia illustrata, or, the knowledge of the microscope explain'd: together with an account of a new invented universal, single or double, microscope ... Also an account of the principal microscopical discoveries ... / To which is added a translation of Mr. Joblott's observations on the animalcula ... and a very particular account of ... the fresh water polype, translated from the French treatise of Mr. Trembley.
Adams, George, 1709-1772Date: 1746
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Micrographia illustrata, or, the microscope explained, in several new inventions ... Likewise a natural history of aerial, terrestrial, and aquatic animals, &c. considered as microscopic objects ... To which is added a translation of Mr. Jablott's observations on the animalcula ... and a very particular account of ... the fresh water polype ... / Translated from ... Mr. Trembley.
Adams, George, 1709-1772Date: 1771
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Micrographia illustrata, or, the knowledge of the microscope explain'd: together with an account of a new invented universal, single or double microscope, either of which is capable of being applied to an improv'd solar apparatus ... ; To which is added, a translation of Mr. Joblott's observations on the animalcula, that are found in many different sorts of infusions; and a very particular account of that surprising phænomenon, the fresh water polype, translated from the French treatise of Mr. Trembley ... / By George Adams.
Adams, George, 1709-1772.Date: 1747
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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 / [George Adams].
Adams, George, 1709-1772Date: 1772