A treatise describing and explaining the construction and use of new celestial and terrestial globes; designed to illustrate ... the phoenomena [sic] of the earth and heavens, and to shew the correspondence of the two spheres. With a great variety of astronomical and geographical problems occasionally interspersed
An instrument-maker's manual on the construction and use of celestial and terrestrial globes, written by George Adams and printed for the author in London in 1766 for students of astronomy and geography and buyers of his globes. The copperplate figures show mounted globes on scrolled tripod stands with brass meridian rings, plus line diagrams of spheres crossed by orbits, horizon circles and lettered reference points.
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