Benjamin Martin

Millburn, John R.

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“…Still, by contemporary standards, its nine-year run was a success, especially since its original plan, as Millburn reckons, had been completed by 1764. 82 As to the magazine's separate parts, their relative individual success or impact is almost impossible to assess, given there is no evidence from readers. However, judging from its reprints in book format well into the 1780s, the dialogic Young Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy must have enjoyed particular popularity, 83 whereas it is in the Miscellaneous Correspondence that Martin's communication with the public and persistent attempt to position himself in the market for periodicals becomes most visible.…”

Section: The Dynamic Of Format: Seriality and Repackagingmentioning

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(Re‐)Packaging Knowledge and The Business of Format: Benjamin Martin's The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences (1755–64)

Schwalm¹

2023

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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Benjamin Martin was an itinerant lecturer, instrument maker, and the author of a substantial number of textbooks mainly in the sciences. His biggest project, however, was The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences (1755–64), dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge to a broad audience. Rather than study Martin's works with regard to the history of science, this article examines his publications in terms of their highly self‐conscious engagement with form and format. While his textbooks are concerned with economic compression, his periodical General Magazine experiments with a special, unwieldy mode of seriality that brings to the fore the role of format as well as the precarious status of seriality for the purposes of knowledge dissemination.

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Section: The Dynamic Of Format: Seriality and Repackagingmentioning

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(Re‐)Packaging Knowledge and The Business of Format: Benjamin Martin's The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences (1755–64)

Schwalm¹

2023

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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“…6 Neither Foundation NHS Trusts nor NHS Trusts as introduced in 1991 of themselves constitute introduction of competition. 6 Neither Foundation NHS Trusts nor NHS Trusts as introduced in 1991 of themselves constitute introduction of competition.…”

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“…6 What about fragmentation? It is logically impossible to offer incentives and at the same time to treat everyone equally.…”

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Physicians and Foundation Hospitals

Cooper

Black

2003

Clinical Medicine

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-Foundation NHS Trusts will be constituted in the same way as Mutual Societies, and local people and patients will be invited to become subscribers. Subscribers will elect a board of governors who will appoint the non-executive directors of the Trusts. Foundation Trusts will be outside the performance management system, but will be subject to a regulator and to inspection. Contracts with commissioners will be legally enforceable. Issues discussed in the article include: financial borrowing; whether competition is being reintroduced; poaching staff; fears of a two-tier health service; fragmentation of the NHS; the impact on research and teaching; and the impact on the current 'target culture'. Local communities and patient groups may welcome involvement with their local hospitals, but special interest groups could be a danger. Foundation Trusts may bring back some of the better features of NHS Trusts as originally conceived, and offer better opportunities for clinicians to influence local policies and priorities. Fears of yet another organisational change are an important issue. Only time will tell whether the outcome will justify the effort the changes will involve.

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“…In this paper Jackson further developed his theory and practice o f making a glue from isinglass to form a cement-like bond when mixed with plaster and lime. Benjamin Martin, Jackson's father-in-law (Jackson remarried in 1763), published, also in 1772, a tract entitled Typographiae naturalis, or the art o f printing, or taking impressions from natural objects.. .by means o f isinglass; proposed for the rational amusement o f the ingenious virtuosi (54). More than a coincidence, it is reasonable to assume that Martin obtained his isinglass from Humphrey Jackson's factory.…”

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Humphrey Jackson, F. R. S., 1717-1801: A pioneering chemist

1986

Notes Rec. R. Soc. Lond.

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Humphrey Jackson’s certificate of 30 March 1772, recommending him for membership of the Royal Society, singled him out as a chemist who had discovered a method of making isinglass from British materials and ‘likewise for his invention of preserving Naval Timber from speedy decay’ (1). And yet, shortly after Jackson’s death in 1801, the compilers of the abridged Philosophical Transactions dismissed him as a charlatan (2), and Thomson’s History of the Royal Society referred to his ‘infamous practices’ (3). This paper aims at unravelling the truth by examining his activities and writings. Humphrey Jackson, born in 1717, would seem to have been the son of Thomas Jackson of Stockton-on-Tees, from whom he inherited a considerable fortune in 1746 (4). The son was apprenticed to a Stockton apothecary and surgeon in 1735 (5). Moving to London he set up as a chemist, married Elizabeth Savory in July 1743, and acquired property in Upper East Smithfield two years later (6). Jackson wrote three books and a tract under the name of ‘H. Jackson, chemist’. A cataloguer erroneously thought the author was ‘Henry’, so that all Humphrey’s works have been attributed to Henry Jackson in the British Library’s General Catalogue of Printed Books . The confusion spread to other libraries in Britain and the United States, with the result that no assessment has been made of Humphrey Jackson’s output as a whole. Nevertheless, internal as well as external evidence shows the authorship to have been his alone.

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Benjamin Martin

Cited by 86 publications

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(Re‐)Packaging Knowledge and The Business of Format: Benjamin Martin's The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences (1755–64)

(Re‐)Packaging Knowledge and The Business of Format: Benjamin Martin's The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences (1755–64)

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Humphrey Jackson, F. R. S., 1717-1801: A pioneering chemist

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