John R Millburn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John R Millburn |
| GIVEN NAMES | John R |
| FAMILY NAME | Millburn |
| SIGNATURE | MILLBURN J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
James Ferguson's lecture tour of the English midlands in 1771
Five recently discovered letters written by James Ferguson, FRS (1710–1776) while he was on a lecture tour in 1771 add substantially to what was previously known about his activities at that time. Together with newspaper advertisements and other correspondence, they not only enable his itinerary to be reconstructed in also reveal some of his own thoughts at the time and the difficulties that he had to contend with. On this particular tour, Fergus…
"Benjamin Martin, Author, Instrument-Maker, and "Country Showman
Establishment of the Fleet Street Business, 1756–9
Dilettante and Microscope Maker, 1737–40
Introduction and Early Life, 1705–35
Consolidation
Philology and the General Magazine
Death and Aftermath
Schoolmaster and Author, 1735–7
The 1770s
Itinerant Lecturer, 1740–55
Benjamin Martin
Benjamin Martin and the Royal Society
BENJAMIN MARTIN (1704/ 5-1782) is usually described in reference books as ‘Optician, of Fleet Street’, but that was only the last of the many stages in his career. Before opening his Fleet Street shop in 1756 he had been an itinerant lecturer on natural philosophy for fifteen years, based initially at Chichester, where he lived from c. 1730 (when he married a Chichester girl) to early 1742. In the mid-1730s he was calling himself a ‘teacher of th…
Benjamin Martin and the Development of the Orrery
The catalogues of mid-eighteenth-century mathematical instrument makers included not only instruments in the sense ‘tools of science’ but also devices intended primarily for educational use. Among the latter would be found mechanical models of the solar system, in varying degrees of complexity and under various names; for convenience such models may be, and often were, loosely called orreries
Benjamin Martin
James Ferguson's lecture tour of the English midlands in 1771
Five recently discovered letters written by James Ferguson, FRS (1710–1776) while he was on a lecture tour in 1771 add substantially to what was previously known about his activities at that time. Together with newspaper advertisements and other correspondence, they not only enable his itinerary to be reconstructed in also reveal some of his own thoughts at the time and the difficulties that he had to contend with. On this particular tour, Fergus…
Benjamin Martin and the Royal Society
BENJAMIN MARTIN (1704/ 5-1782) is usually described in reference books as ‘Optician, of Fleet Street’, but that was only the last of the many stages in his career. Before opening his Fleet Street shop in 1756 he had been an itinerant lecturer on natural philosophy for fifteen years, based initially at Chichester, where he lived from c. 1730 (when he married a Chichester girl) to early 1742. In the mid-1730s he was calling himself a ‘teacher of th…
Benjamin Martin and the Development of the Orrery
The catalogues of mid-eighteenth-century mathematical instrument makers included not only instruments in the sense ‘tools of science’ but also devices intended primarily for educational use. Among the latter would be found mechanical models of the solar system, in varying degrees of complexity and under various names; for convenience such models may be, and often were, loosely called orreries
Establishment of the Fleet Street Business, 1756–9
Dilettante and Microscope Maker, 1737–40
Introduction and Early Life, 1705–35
Consolidation
Philology and the General Magazine
Death and Aftermath
Schoolmaster and Author, 1735–7
The 1770s
Itinerant Lecturer, 1740–55
Benjamin Martin
"Benjamin Martin, Author, Instrument-Maker, and "Country Showman
James Ferguson's lecture tour of the English midlands in 1771
Five recently discovered letters written by James Ferguson, FRS (1710–1776) while he was on a lecture tour in 1771 add substantially to what was previously known about his activities at that time. Together with newspaper advertisements and other correspondence, they not only enable his itinerary to be reconstructed in also reveal some of his own thoughts at the time and the difficulties that he had to contend with. On this particular tour, Fergus…
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