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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 phaenomena of the earth and heavens, ant to shew the correspondence of the two spheres : with great variety of astronomical and geographical problems / by George Adams, mathematical instrument-maker ...
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globes on which the earth and skyare delineated less defective in theirconstruction, and less difficult intheir use.

Geography is in a peculiar man-ner the science os Princes. Whena private student revolves the terra-queous globe, he beholds a succes-sion os countries in which he hasno more interest than in the ima-ginary regions of Jupiter and Saturn.But Your Majesty must contem-plate the scientisick picture withother sentiments, and consider, asoceans and continents are rollingbefore You, how large a part ofmankind is now waiting on Yourdeterminations, and may receive be-nefits