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JOHN ADAIR (d. 1722)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 166 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:ADAIR (d. 1722)  , Scottish surveyor and See also:map-maker of the 17th See also:century . Nothing is known of his parentage, See also:birth-See also:place or See also:early See also:life . His name first came before the public in 1683, when a See also:prospectus was published in See also:Edinburgh entitled An See also:Account of the Scottish See also:Atlas, stating that " the Privy See also:Council of See also:Scotland has appointed See also:John See also:Adair, mathematician and skilfull mechanick, to survey the shires." In 1686 an See also:act of See also:tonnage was passed in Adair's favour . He was then employed on a survey of the Scottish See also: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 . See also:Wendt's edition of See also:Meyer (1899), and that by R . J . Knowling in The Expositor's See also:Greek Testament, vol. ii . (190o), supplemented by his Testimony of St See also:Paul to See also:Christ (1905) . See, also J . Moffatt, The See also:Historical New Testament (1901) .

412 if., 655 ff.; C . Clemen, See also:

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

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