Adams of Fleet Street, Instrument Makers to King George III
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British scientific heritage
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Fleet Street
Fleet Street LONDON
George III
George Junior
George Senior
Globe Maker
globe making techniques
Hadley's Quadrant
historical scientific instrument business
Instrument Maker
junior
King George III
Langley Marish
Leyden Jars
mathematical
Mathematical Instrument Maker
medico-electrical devices
Micrographia Illustrata
Nutting Grove
Patent Telescopes
Racquet Court
Royal Mathematical School
scientific instrument history
Shoe Lane
Terrestrial Globe
Thomas Heath
Whipple Museum
Product details
- ISBN 9780754600800
- Weight: 980g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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’G. Adams in Fleet Street London’ is the signature on some of the finest scientific instruments of the eighteenth century. This book is the first comprehensive study of the instrument-making business run by the Adams family, from its foundation in 1734 to bankruptcy in 1817. It is based on detailed research in the archival sources as well as examination of extant instruments and publications by George Adams senior and his two sons, George junior and Dudley. Separate chapters are devoted to George senior’s family background, his royal connections, and his new globes; George junior’s numerous publications, and his dealings with van Marum; and to Dudley’s dabbling with ’medico-electrical therapeutics’. The book is richly illustrated with plates from the Adams’s own publications and with examples of instruments ranging from unique museum pieces - such as the ’Prince of Wales’ microscope - and globes to the more common, even mundane, items of the kind seen in salesrooms and dealers - the surveying, navigational and military instruments that formed the backbone of the business. The appendices include facsimiles of trade catalogues and an annotated short-title listing of the Adams family’s publications, which also covers American and Continental editions, as well as the posthumous ones by W. & S. Jones.
John R. Millburn
