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Lilii Gregorii Gyraldi De annis et mensibvs caeterisqve temporum partibus, difficili hactenus & impedita materia, dissertatio facilis & expedita. Eivsdem calendarium et romanorum et graecum, gentis utriusque solennia. Ac rerum insigniter gestarū tempora complectens, magno tum historijs, tum c̨eteris autoribus cognoscendis usui futurum / [Lilio Gregorio Giraldi].
Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio, 1479-1552.Date: 1541- Books
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A briefe treatise containing many proper tables and easie rules : Very necessary and needful for the vse and commodity of all people: first collected out o[f] certaine learned mens wo[r]kes. By Richard Grafton. And now newly perused, corrected, and in many places augmented this present yeare. 1608. The contents whereof, the leafe that next followeth doth expresse.
Grafton, Richard, -1572?Date: 1608- Books
Jacobi Pinonis ... De anno Romano carmen. Cum annotationibus ad rem pertinentibus, quibus multa continentur, quae neque lex carminis, neque poëmatis usus satis explicare potuit: maximè quae de Gregoriana anni emendatione, cyclo paschali, epactis, numero aureo, indictione, & cyclo solari scripta sunt ... / [Jacques Pinon].
Pinon, Jacques, -1641.Date: 1630- Books
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Observations on time, sacred and prophane: Being chronographical disquisitions on the Julian and Gregorian styles; etymological notes on the names of years, months, and days. Also historical remarks on the various holy days, either fasts, or festivals in use in England; their original names, end, and use. To which are annexed tables, engraven on copper plates, with the Julian, Gregorian, and Jewish stiles parallel'd, with many other things useful for those that consult almanacks. And read foreign news. By N.B. Philomath.
N. B., Philomath.Date: 1705- Books
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Miscellaneous arithmetic: or a full account of the new calendar; with the several uses of the logarithms, and of multiplication and division by mony, &c. In seven parts. Containing, I. A brief Account of the Festivals and Fasts of the Jewish and Christian Churches; with such others as are mentioned in the present new Calendar; very necessary for the better understanding the said Calendar. II. A Dissertation concerning Years, Months, &c. and the manner of their being settled in the World, for the better Computation of Time. Together with the Calculation of Scripture-Measures, Weights, and Coins: and an Observation concerning the exquisite Workmanship of the Tabernacle, &c. in the Time of Moses. III. Rules for finding the Golden Number, Epact, &c. together with the Method of calculating Easter, and all the other moveable Feasts throughout the Year: All which serve for a further Understanding of the present new Calendar. IV. The Uses of the Logarithms; shewing how to perform that Sort of Arithmetic in all its Parts, whether in whole Numbers, or in Fractions; with the Method of adding and subtracting Indices, both affirmative and negative. V. The Method of performing Multiplication and Division of Pounds, Shillings and Pence, by Pounds, Shillings and Pence, so as it may answer the Purposes of performing an Operation in the Rule of Three, where the Terms are composed of Mony only; or in Fellowship, where the Terms are composed of Mony and Time, by which it appears, that this Sort of Arithmetic is very curious, and perhaps not altogether useless. VI. Some Observations on the Weather; by which any Person is enabled to form to himself some Ideas of it for the Time to come; to which is subjoined, a Taste of Enigmatical Writing, together with the Character of a good Christian, set forth in twenty Paradoxes, with their Solutions. Vii. An Essay concerning the Education of Children, so far as relates to the several Sciences which they are to learn at School. The Whole, being the fullest and compleatest of this Kind extant, is designed for the Use of Schools in Great Britain and Ireland; and in the English Plantations and Colonies, as Subjects both profitable and entertaining. By Thomas Dilworth, Author of the New Guide to the English Tongue, Schoolmasters Assistant, Young Book-Keeper's Assistant, &c. &c. and Schoolmaster in Wapping.
Dilworth, Thomas, -1780.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Remarks upon the solar and the lunar years, the cycle of 19 years, commonly called the golden number, the epact, And a Method of finding the Time of Easter, as it is now observed in most Parts of Europe. Being part of a letter from the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield to Martin Folkes Esq; President of the Royal Society, and by him communicated to the same, May 10. 1750.
Macclesfield, George Parker, Earl of, 1697-1764.Date: M.DCC.LI. [1751]- Books
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The young astronomer's assistant, and countryman's daily companion; Containing the following Particulars: I. An Account of the Common Notes for finding the Moveable Feasts and Fasts appointed by the Church. II. Astronomy, giving a Description and Rules for calculating the chief Circles of the Sphere, of use to find Longitude and Latitude in Traveling, Navigation, and Dialing; also New Rules for finding the Sun's True Place and Entrance into the Four Quarters of the Year, with Tables thereof for seven Years. III. A New Kalendar for Seven Years, beginning with 1755, and continued to 1762, showing the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Moon; the Moon's Signs, Change, Full, and Quarters; Southing of fixed Stars at Midnight; Remarkable Times and Eclipses of both Luminaries; a Table of the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Seven Stars; Tables of Terms, Tides, Interests, Weights, &c. and many other Things of daily Use. IV. Mensuration of Land, Timber, &c. Artificers Work, with their Prices, &c. The Whole interspersed with Rules for finding every Article, and adapted to the meanest Capacity. By William Hitchman, Shoemaker, of Poulton, near Cirencester.
Hitchman, William.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
Censorinus De die natali / Henric. Lindenbrogius recensuit et notis, iterata hac editione passim adauctis, illustravit.
Censorinus.Date: 1642- Books
Censorinus De die natali / Henricus Lindenbrogius recensuit et notis illustravit. Quibus etiam accedunt nunnesii in fragmentum notæ, cum spicilegio annotationum doctissimorum virorum Salmasii, Scaligeri, & c. ; opus hactenus diù desideratum, ex optimorum exemplarium collatione, jam denuò recognitum atque auctum.
Censorinus.Date: 1695- Books
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Cosmographia, or, A view of the terrestrial and cœlestial globes : in a brief explanation of the principles of plain and solid geometry applied to surveying and gauging of cask : the doctrine of primum mobile : with an account of the Juilan & Gregorian calendars, and the computation of the places of the sun, moon, and fixed stars ... : to which is added an introduction unto geography / by John Newton.
Newton, John, 1622-1678Date: 1679- Books
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A discourse concerning time, with application of the natural day, and lunar month, and solar year, as natural; And of such as are derived from them; As Artificial Parts of Time, for Measures in Civil and Common Use: for the better understanding of the Julian year and calendar. The First Column also in our Church-Calendar explained. With other incidental remarks. The second edition. By William Holder, D. D. late Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's, London; and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Holder, William, 1616-1698.Date: 1701