A treatise describing the construction, and explaining the use of new celestial and terrestrial globes : designed to illustrate in the most easy and natural manner, the phaenomena of the earth and heavens, ant to shew the correspondence of the two spheres : with great variety of astronomical and geographical problems
A treatise by George Adams, printed for the author in 1769, explaining how to build and use celestial and terrestrial globes for teaching astronomy and geography to general readers. The plates show engraved globes with meridian rings, horizon rings and geometric diagrams of spherical triangles. A designer could take the crisp radial lines, graduated rings and orbital arcs as models for technical diagrams, armillary-style linework and vintage scientific charts.
