Benjamin Martin : Author, Instrument-Maker, and `Country Showman'

1 Introduction and Early Life, 1705 35.- 2 Schoolmaster and Author, 1735 7.- 3 Dilettante and Microscope Maker, 1737 40.- 4 Itinerant Lecturer, 1740 55.- 5 Philology and the General Magazine.- 6 Establishment of the Fleet Street Business, 1756 9.- 7 Consolidation: the 1760s.- 8 The 1770s.- 9 Death and Aftermath.- I Short-title List of Martin s Publications.- II Manuscripts Relating to Benjamin Martin.- III Martin s Catalogue of Instruments, Books and Prints, 1762.- IV Locations of Representative Martin Instruments.- V ?ibliography of Printed Sources, other than Martin s Publications.