Benjamin Martin
1705 – 1782
67 works on record
Works
An essay on visual glasses, (vulgarly called spectacles) wherein it is shewn ... that the common structure of those glasses is ... very prejudicial to the eyes; the nature of vision in the eye explained, and glasses of a new construction proposed
Micrographia nova
![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](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/10968888-M.jpg)
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
Philosophia Britannica
Élémens des sciences et des arts littéraires
A new and comprehensive system of philology, or, a treatise of the literary arts and sciences, according to their present state
A plain and familiar introduction to the Newtonian experimental philosophy
An essay on electricity
The philosophical grammar
The theory of comets, illustrated, in four parts. I. An essay on the natural history and philosophy of comets; being the substance of all that has been hitherto published on that head. II. Tables, containing the elements of the theory of a comet's motion, (in a parabola or an ellipsis) with their nature and use explained. III. The method of constructing the orbit of any comet, and computing its place therein; its latitude and longitude, as seen from the earth or sun; its distance, velocity, magnitude, length of tail, and other particulars relative thereto. IV. The method of delineating the visible path of a comet in the heavens, on the surface of a celestial globe; and for drawing the trajectory by protraction with scale and compasses. The whole adapted to, and exemplified in the orbit of the comet of the year 1682, whose return is now near at hand
An essay on the nature and superior use of globes, in conveying the first principles of geography and astronomy to the minds of youth
The young gentleman and lady's philosophy
Bibliotheca technologica
The description and use of both the globes
Philosophia britannica: or, A new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, atronomy [!] and geographys [!]
A new compleat and universal system or body of decimal arithmetick
An introduction to the English language and learning
A plain and familiar introduction to the Newtonian philosophy
A panegyrick on the Newtonian philosophy
The description and use of a case of mathematical instruments
The theory of comets
The principles of perspective explained in a genuine theory
The young student's memorial book or pocket library
Biographia philosophica
A new and comprehensive system of mathematical institutions
Gramatica delle scienze filosofiche, o, Breve analisi della filosofia moderna appoggiata alle sperienze
The young trigonometer's compleat guide
Pangeometria; or the elements of all geometry...
Bibliotheca technologica; or, A philological library of literary arts and sciences ...
Logarithmologia
The natural history of England
The young student's memorial book, or pocket library
Directions for the use of the general apparatus of optical instruments
The monied man's vade mecum
The description and use of the pocket case of mathematical instruments
Logarithmologia, or, The whole doctrine of logarithms, common and logistical, in theory and practice
The young trigonometer's compleat guide ...
Philosophia Britannica, or, A new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy and geography
A course of lectures in natural and experimental philosophy, geography and astronomy
Thermometrum magnum, or, Grand standard thermometer
Micrographia nova, or, A new treatise on the microscope and microscopic objects
A supplement to the Philosophia Britannica
An essay on visual glasses, (vulgarly called spectacles)
The new art of surveying by the goniometer
The description and use of a graphical perspective and microscope
Microscopium polydynamicum, or, A new construction of a microscope
The description and use of a new, portable, table air-pump and condensing engine
Two essays on the nature and wonderful properties of Island crystal
New elements of optics, or, The theory of the aberrations, dissipation, and colours of light
An appendix to The description and use of the globes
Elementi delle scienze e delle arti letterarie
An explanation of a new construction and improvement of the sea octant and sextant
An essay on visual glasses (vulgarly called spectacles)
The theory of Hadley's quadrant demonstrated
The description and use of an orrery of a new construction ...
A description of the nature, construction, and use of the Torricellian, or simple barometer
The wonders of the cometary world displayed in five new views of the mundane system
Venus in the sun
Institutioins of language
New principles of geography and navigation
Grammaire des sciences philosophiques, ou, Analyse abregée de la philosophie moderne, appuyée sur les expériences
Appendix to the Theory of the genuine hydrometer
A plain and familiar introduction to the Newtonian experimental philosophy. In six sections; illustrated by six copper-plates. Designed for the use of such gentlemen and ladies as would acquire a competent knowledge of this science without mathematical learning; and more especially those who have, or may attend the author's course of lectures and experiments on these subjects
The description and use of an universal microscope, answering all the purposes of single, compound, opake, and aquatic microscopes
The use of a new hydrostatic balance
Directions for the use of a new hydrostatic ballance
The general magazine of arts and sciences ...