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Almanacs, English - Ireland - Early works to 1800
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The Belfast almanack (improved, and enlarged) for the year of our Lord 1786. Adapted to the new stile: being the 2d after leap-year. And the twenty-sixth year of K. George III's reign, till 25 October. Containing, eclipses,--four termly quarters. page 2 Pay of the navy of britaina sun's rising and setting; also the moon's southing; for every day in the week, and every month in the year. 2 to 15. The fairs of chester and bristol. The days of the month and week; fasts, festivals, and other remarkable days. The royal navy of britain. p. 14 The atheist; or, what the world calls a fine gentleman (From page 3 to 16.) The humorous adventure of an arch papist. A list of the royal family of Great Britain, page 16. Calculated for the meridian of Belfast, whose latitude is 54 degrees 48 min. north, and may very well serve all other parts of Ireland and Great Britain.
Date: 1786?]- Books
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An almanack or Diary, astronomical, meteorological, and astrological, for the year of our lord 1733 it being the first after leap year. Containing, the eclipses of the luminaries solar-ingresses. A table of the sun's declination, rising and setting of the sun for the city of Cork, with divers tables of good use. Calculated chiefly for the city of Dublin; whose latitude is 53 degrees, 20 minutes north; and may very well serve any part of this kingdom. To which are added some paradoxes, enigmas arithmetical questions &c. with many delightful particulars, fitly adapted for the life and diversion of both sexes. Also the husbandman's kalendar, directing what works are necessary to be done every month in the field, and also in the kitchen, fruit and flower-gardens. By John Knapp. Clock and watch maker at the lower end of Eishamble-street, near the mill, at the sign of the dial. Cork.
Knapp, John, Lover of the Mathematicks.Date: 1733- Books
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The Belfast almanack (improved, and enlarged) for the year of our Lord 1790. Adapted to the new stile: being the second after leap-year. And the thirtieth year of K. George III's reign, till 25 October. Containing, eclipses, four termly quarters. page 2 Pay of the Navy of Britain 2 Sun's rising and setting; also the moon's southing; for every day in the week, and every month in the year. 2 to 15. The fairs of Chester and Bristol. The days of the month and week; fasts, festivals, and other remarkable days. The Royal Navy of Britain. p. 14 sun and planets; also a curious calculation of their distance from the sun, from p. 3d, to page 6. A striking contrast between the powers of the popes of old, and those of the present day. from p. 6. to p. 11. A curious and diverting story of an auctioneer. from page 11 to p. 14. A word to and affecting account of the preservation of the three p[erson]s, above five weeks in snow sixty feet deep. page 15 to 16. Calculated for the meridian of Belfast, [whose latitude] is 54 degrees 48 min. north, and may very well serve all other parts of Ireland, and Great Britain.
Date: 1790?]- Books
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The starry-interpreter: being a most useful and compleat almanack for the year of our Lord, 1721. Being the first after bissextile-year. And from the creation of thw world, 5670. Containing astrological judgments for the weather, and monthly observations, with a general judgment on the quarterly-ingresses, eclipses, and other configurations of heaven, happening therein. Also, the sun's rising and setting, length of the day and night, moon's rising, southing, setting, change, full, quarters, time of high-water, hour of the night by her shining on a sun-dial: likewise the mutual aspects, and time of the moon's conjunction with the five plantes: to which is added a regal-table, the oriental and occidental rising and setting of the five planets before and after the sun, the terms and their returns, the swearing-days of the masters' of the several corporations the four quarrerly-assemblies in the city of Dublin, a brief chronology, with the fairs and high-ways, and usual holy-days. Calculate, according at art, for the honourable city of Dublin, whose pole-artick is elevated above the horizon-53 deg, 20 min. and may indfferently serve all Ireland and Great-Britain. By Peter La Boissiere, philomath.
La Boissiere, Peter.Date: 1721- Books
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The Belfast town and country almanack, (improved and enlarged) for the year of our Lord 1798. Adapted to the new stile: being the second after leap-year. Containing, vulgar notes-moveable feasts-eclipses-four termly quartess-pay of the royal navy page 2 sun's rising and setting for every day in the week, and every month in the year 3-14 Days of the month and week-fasts, festivals, and other remarkable days. 3-14 The whole known fairs in Scotland 3-14 Additional fairs 15,16 A chronological table of remarkable events 15 Calculated for the meridian of Belfast, whose latitude is 54 degrees 48 min. north, and may very well serve all other parts of Ireland and Great Britain[.]
Date: 1798]