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• 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 phoenomena of the earth and heavens, And to shew the Correspondence of the Two Spheres. With a great Variety of Astronomical and Geographical Problems. By George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to His Majesty
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  Published: (1790)
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