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An astronomical diary : or, Almanack for the Year of Our Lord Christ, 1765. Being the first after Bissextile or Leap-Year. Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, New-England, Lat. 42 Deg. 25 Min. North.: Almanac for the year of our Lord Christ 1765.
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| Title: | An astronomical diary : or, Almanack for the Year of Our Lord Christ, 1765. Being the first after Bissextile or Leap-Year. Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, New-England, Lat. 42 Deg. 25 Min. North.: Almanac for the year of our Lord Christ 1765. |
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| Name(s): |
Ames, Nathaniel 1708-1764 Ames, Nathaniel 1741-1822 |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Almanac | |
| Date Created: | 1765 | |
| Date Issued: | 1765 | |
| Publisher: | Printed and sold by R. and S. Draper, in Newbury-Street | |
| Place of Publication: | Boston, Ma. | |
| Physical Form: | online resource | |
| Extent: | 24 unnumbered pages; 17 cm | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | Containing eclipses, ephemeris, aspects, spring-tides, judgment of the weather, feasts and fasts of the Church, courts in Massachusetts-Bay, New-Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode-Island, sun and moon's rising and setting, time of high-water, roads with the best stages or houses to put up at.-- An elegy on the death of the late Dr. Ames. Some practical rules for husbandry. | |
| Identifier: | fauwa1765000000 (IID) | |
| Note: | By Nathaniel Ames. ; [Twelve lines of verse]. Printed and sold by R. and S. Draper, in Newbury-Street; Edes & Gill, and Green & Russell, in Queen-Street; and T. & J. Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill. [i.e. Printed by Timothy Green] Sold also by the booksellers. Price: 3s. 4d. per dozen, and 7 coppers single., [1764]" ... being bereaved of the author ..., I, his son ... was induced to finish this almanack"--unnumbered page 2. The compilation of this issue was begun by the elder Nathaniel Ames (1708-1764) and completed by his son Nathaniel. Cf. New England Historical and Genealogical Record, v. 16 (1862), p. 255-257. See also the preface by the younger Ames, whose "Elegy on the death of the late Dr. Ames" is also included in the almanac (unnumbered pages 21-22). The Massachusetts gazette advertisement states: "The late Dr. Nathaniel Ames had finished his calculations for this almanac, and prepared a copy thereof, before his death, excepting the eclipses, which, together with the additional part, has since been completed by his son." | |
| Physical Location: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries' Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection, Pamphlets: Almanacs B1F23 | |
| Subject(s): |
Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1765 United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwa1765000000 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
