Benjamin Martin 1705 - 1782
- occupation:
- Optical instrument maker, Philosophical instrument maker, mathematical instrument maker, Science lecturer
- Nationality:
- English; British
- born in:
- Worplesdon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Benjamin Martin had a large workshop which produced instruments under his name; made improvements to the microscope and wrote extensively in the field of natural philosophy.
Traded at South St., Chichester, Sussex (1736-40), Hadley Quadrant & Visual Glasses, nr Crane Court, Fleet St., London (1756-62), Two doors from Crane Court, Fleet St. (1756-9), resident in Fleet St. (1756-82), Four doors East of Crane Court (1760), The New Invented Visual Glasses, Fleet St. (1761) & 171 Fleet St. (1767-77), London.
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Small orrery by Benjamin Martin
‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin
Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin
Trade card: B. Martin. 1742. Price list of microscopes
Large microscope, Benjamin Martin (?), London, c, 1770
Trade card: Benjamin Martin
Trade card: B[enjamin] Martin
Instrument case for compound microscope
Compound drum microscope
