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DNB

 * Article title: Adams, George (1750-1795)
 * Author: no contributor recorded
 * LEAD: ADAMS, GEORGE, the younger (1750–1795), was the son of George Adams [q. v.], the mathematical instrument maker to George III, and succeeded his father in that office and in the superintendence of his business.
 * LEAD: ADAMS, GEORGE, the younger (1750–1795), was the son of George Adams [q. v.], the mathematical instrument maker to George III, and succeeded his father in that office and in the superintendence of his business.
 * LEAD: ADAMS, GEORGE, the younger (1750–1795), was the son of George Adams [q. v.], the mathematical instrument maker to George III, and succeeded his father in that office and in the superintendence of his business.

General

 * Gent. Mag. lxv. 708
 * A. de Morgan in S.D.U.K. Biog. Dict.
 * Brit. Mus. Cat.

Works

 * ‘An Essay on Electricity, to which is added an Essay on Magnetism’ (1784)
 * ‘Essays on the Microscope’ (1787)
 * ‘An Essay on Vision, briefly explaining the fabric of the eye’ (1789)
 * ‘Astronomical and Geographical Essays’ (1790)
 * ‘A Short Dissertation on the Barometer’ (1790)
 * ‘Geometrical and Graphical Essays, containing a description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling and perspective’ (1790)
 * ‘Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy,’ in five volumes (1794)