Benjamin Martin, optician, lexicographer & scientific instrument maker 1785

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Benjamin Martin, Optician. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Unsigned. Provenance: "Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle", by Sylvanus Urban, Gent. London: Printed by John Nichols, for David Henry, late of St. John's Gate, and sold by Eliz. Newbery, the corner of St Paul's Churchyard, Ludgate Street . Type: Antique copperplate print. Benjamin Martin (baptized 1705; died 1782) was a lexicographer who compiled one of the early English dictionaries, the Lingua Britannica Reformata (1749). He also was a lecturer on science and maker of scientific instruments.

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