Benjamin Martin (1705-1782) was an English lexicographer & instrument maker known for his 'Lingua Britannica Reformata' dictionary and contributions to science education. Explore his work in optics, natural philosophy, and early scientific instrument
Oplev Royal Society – et fascinerende museum om videnskabens historie! Se originale instrumenter, manuskripter og portrætter af store forskere. En unik rejse ind i den videnskabelige revolution.
Image from the appendix to the Philosophia Britannica, or: A new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy, and geography, in a course of twelve lectures, with notes; containing the physical, mechanical, geometrical, and experimental proofs and illustrations of all the principal propositions in every branch of natural science: also a particular account of the invention, structure, improvement and uses of all the considerable instruments, engines, and machines; with new calculations relating to their nature, power, and operation. The whole collected and methodized from all the principal authors, and public memoirs; and embellished with eighty-one copper-plates, published by Benjamin Martin in 1759.
