Thomas's Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, New-Hampshire and Vermont almanack, for the year of our Lord 1782: [electronic resource] : ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, but will serve without any essential variation for either of the beforementioned states
- Bib ID:
- 3373749
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
- http://opac.newsbank.com/select/evans/17174
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- Description:
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- Worcester [Mass.]: : Printed and sold by Isaiah Thomas., [1781]
- [38] p. : ill. ; 18 cm. (4to)
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 17174.
- Notes:
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- Issues for 1779-1781 were entitled Thomas's Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, and Connecticut almanack.
- Though the preface by "Philomathes" speaks of this as "my fifth almanack," the rest of his remarks are clearly those of the publisher rather than the calculator. Though the latter was supposed by Evans to be Ezra Gleason for this series of almanacs through 1795, in the present issue he appears to be Nathaniel Low. The eclipse predictions and the calendar page calculations are closely similar to those in Low's An astronomical diary or Almanack for 1782 (Boston); and there is a significant degree of identity between the two almanacs in the astronomical and astrological notes on the calendar pages, though the present almanac contains fewer of them. It is the first almanac in the Thomas series to give aspects on the calendar pages, suggesting the work of a different calculator; and it gives occasional calculations on these pages for Yard L (Yardline, or Yard and Ell: the belt of Orion) and for P.N. (pointers north), which at this time are found only in the almanacs of Low and Daniel George. The significance of "pointers north" is discussed in Low's almanac for 1772, p. [4].
- The "Descriptions of the planets, shewing how to know them in the heavens," p. [17-18], is also found in Fleet's Pocket almanack for 1788 (Boston) in which the calculations and most of the other astronomical matter are identical or practically so with Low's almanac for the same year. The "Description" itself does not seem to appear in any of the almanacs published under Low's name.
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- Cited In:
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- Evans 17174
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 3311
- Reproduction:
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 17174). Mode of access : World Wide Web.
- Form/genre:
- Almanacs
- Place:
- United States Massachusetts Worcester.
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1808
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1781
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