See also: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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