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by Benjamin Martin

Martin's first publication The Philosophical Grammar (1735), consisted of an epitome of current knowledge in the various branches of natural philosophy presented in a single inexpensive volume. An enlarged second edition (1738) was reprinted six times up to 1778, and was translated into Dutch, French, and Italian. In 1737 he produced a complementary work on non-mathematical subjects, Bibliotheca technologica, which considered the literary arts and sciences under twenty-five headings, ranging from theology to heraldry; it was later translated into French and Italian. The Bibliotheca was published by subscription, and the 564 names listed show that Martin by this time was becoming well known. Other volumes written at Chichester include Arithmetic (1735), Trigonometry (1736), Geometry (1739), Logarithms (1739), and Optics (1740). Astronomy was presented in a large copperplate print, Synopsis scientiae Caelestis (1739). ^[1]

Bibliographic Information

Author: Benjamin Martin, (bap. 1705, d, 1782)

Title: The Philosophical Grammar: Being A View Of The Present State Of Experimented Physiology, Or Natural Philosophy In Four Parts. Part I. Somatology, ... Part II. Cosmology, ... Part III. Aerology, ... Part IV. Geology, ... : The Whole Extracted From The Writings Of The Greatest Naturalists Of The Last And Present Age

Published: London: Printed for J. Noon, 1735.

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Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in full calf and rebacked in leather. Pages are white, bright, unmarked and unfoxed. The front endpapers have the bookplates of Earl of Roden and of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald W. Chase. Purchased from Adams & Adams Booksellers.

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References

1. ↑ John R. Millburn, ‘Martin, Benjamin (bap. 1705, d. 1782)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 June 2013