Description: Astronomical and Geographical Essays, George Adams 1795 Summary | ASTRONOMICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS : Containing, I: A Full & Comprehensive View, On a New Plan, of the General Principles of Astronomy. II: The Use of Celestial & Terrestrial Globes, exemplified in a greater Variety of Problems, than are to be found in any other Work; they are arranged under distincts headings, and interspersed with much curious, but relative Information, III: The Description & Use of the Most The Armilly Sphere, Planetarium, Tellurian & Lunarium. IV: An Introduction to Practical Astronomy; or the Use of the Quadrant and Equatorial. George Adams junior (1750–1795) was apprenticed in 1765 to his father, also George Adams, a celebrated mathematical and scientific instrument maker, who had been appointed mathematical instrument maker to George III in 1760. After the death of his father in 1772 George Adams junior continued the business with his widow Ann. The appointment to the king continued, and in 1787 George junior became optician to the prince of Wales (the future George IV). In the 1780s George junior began to write and publish a number of illustrated textbooks dealing with the physical sciences, in particular an Essay on Electricity (1784), Essays on the Microscope (1787), Astronomical and Geographical Essays (1789), Geometrical and Graphical Essays (1791), and Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy (5 vols., 1794).
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Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Place of Publication: London
Author: George Adams
Publisher: London printed by R. Hindmarsh
Year Printed: 1795
Non-Fiction Subject: Mathematics & Sciences
Special Attributes: 3rd Edition
