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ADAIR, JOHN (d. 1722)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 166 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ADAIR, JOHN (d. 1722) , Scottish surveyor and map-maker of the 17th
century
 . Nothing is known of his parentage,
birth
 -place or early
life
 . His name first came before the public in 1683, when a prospectus was published in Edinburgh entitled An Account of the Scottish
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 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 fellow of the Royal Society. Two other acts of tonnage were passed for
1 66 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 Historical New Testament (1901). 412 if., 655 ff.; C. Clemen, Die Apostelgesch. im Lichte der neueren Forschungen (Giessen, 1905) ; and A. Harnack, Die Apostelgeschichte
(1908). (J. V. B.)


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