Online Encyclopedia

JOHN ADAIR (d. 1722)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 166 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

JOHN ADAIR (d. 1722)  , Scottish surveyor and map-maker of the 17th century . Nothing is known of his parentage, birth-place or early
See also:
life . His name first came before the public in 1683, when a prospectus was published in
See also:
Edinburgh entitled An Account of the Scottish
See also:
Atlas, stating that " the Privy Council of Scotland has appointed John Adair, mathematician and skilfull mechanick, to survey the shires." In 1686 an act of
See also:
tonnage was passed in Adair's favour . He was then employed on a survey of the Scottish coast and two years later was made a
See also:
fellow of the Royal Society . Two other acts of tonnage were passed for 1 66
See also:
ACTUARY- commentaries, viz., H . H . Wendt's edition of Meyer (1899), and that by R . J . Knowling in The Expositor's Greek Testament, vol. ii . (190o), supplemented by his Testimony of St Paul to Christ (1905) . See, also J . Moffatt, The
See also:
Historical New Testament (1901) .

412 if., 655 ff.; C . Clemen,

Die Apostelgesch. im Lichte der neueren Forschungen (
See also:
Giessen, 1905) ; and A . Harnack, Die Apostelgeschichte (1908) . (J . V .

End of Article: JOHN ADAIR (d. 1722)
[back]
ADAGIO (Ital. ad agio, at ease)
[next]
ADALBERON

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.