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 * Article title: Adams, George (d.1773)
 * Author: no contributor recorded
 * LEAD: ADAMS, GEORGE, the elder (d. 1773), mathematical instrument maker to George III, obtained a world-wide reputation as a maker of celestial and terrestrial globes, and his ‘treatise describing and explaining the construction and use of new celestial and terrestrial globes’ passed through thirty editions.
 * LEAD: ADAMS, GEORGE, the elder (d. 1773), mathematical instrument maker to George III, obtained a world-wide reputation as a maker of celestial and terrestrial globes, and his ‘treatise describing and explaining the construction and use of new celestial and terrestrial globes’ passed through thirty editions.
 * LEAD: ADAMS, GEORGE, the elder (d. 1773), mathematical instrument maker to George III, obtained a world-wide reputation as a maker of celestial and terrestrial globes, and his ‘treatise describing and explaining the construction and use of new celestial and terrestrial globes’ passed through thirty editions.

Works

 * ‘treatise describing and explaining the construction and use of new celestial and terrestrial globes’ (1766, 30th ed. 1810)
 * ‘Micrographia Illustrata, or the knowledge of the microscope explained’ (1746), which included ‘a translation of Mr. Joblott's observations on animalculæ,’ and passed through four editions between its date of publication and 1771
 * ‘The Description and Use of a new Sea-quadrant for taking the altitude of the sun from the visible horizon’ (1748)
 * ‘The Description and Use of the Universal Trigonometrical Octant, invented and applied to Hadley's Quadrant’ (1753)