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Freind 1616 : a new almanacke and prognostication in which you may behold the state of this present yeare of our Lorde God, 1616,being leape yeare : calculated for the citty of London, and generally for all of England / by Gabriell Freind.
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Cardanus Rider's sheet almanack, for the year of Our Lord God, 1787. Being the third after bissextile, or leap year. Common notes and moveable feasts in 1787. Dominical letter - - G golden Number - - - 2 cycle of the sun - - 4 epact - - - - - - 11 Roman indiction - - 5 shrove Sunday 18 Feb. Easter Day - 8 April. Whit Sunday - 27 May. Trinity Sunday 3 June. Advent Sunday 2 Dec. Venus will be a morning Star till the 18th of October, afterwards an evening Star to the year's end. Jupiter is an evening Star till May 24, then a morning Star till Dec. 13, and then an evening Star to the year's end. Six Eclipses will happen this year: I. Jan. 3, moon eclipsed, visible; from 10 at Night, till 35 m. past one in the morning of Jan. 4. II. Jan. 19, sun eclipsed, visible; from 54 m. past nine, till 12 m. past eleven morning. III. June 15, sun eclipsed, visible; from 12 m. past four, till 47 m. past five in the afternoon. IV. June 30, moon eclipsed, invisible; at one in the afternoon. V. Dec. 9, sun eclipsed, invisible; at a Quarter past four in the afternoon. VI. Dec. 24, moon eclipsed, visible; from 42 min. past one, till 32 min. past four in the afternoon.
Rider, Cardanus.Date: [1787]- Books
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Date: [1581]- Books
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The gentleman's and dealer's Cork almanack For the Year 1778, Being second after leap year, And the eighteenth year of King George III. Reign, Until the Twenty-Fifth of October, containing The Sun's Rising and Setting; Day Break; Eclipses; Moon's Age, Rising, Setting, and Southing; Lunations; Solar Ingresses; Terms; High Water at Cork; Bankers and Custom House Holidays; Several very Useful Tables; New Rates of Coaches and Chaises; A Correct List of the fairs in the Kingdom; Mathematical Questions; Enigmas; and Rebuses, for the Improvement of the Sciences; Calculated for the Meridian of the City of Cork, in Latitude 51- 49- North, and 9- 10- West Longitude, from the Royal Observatory, at Greenwich. By Patrick Aher, Philomath.
Aher, Patrick.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Cardanus Rider's sheet almanack, for the Year of our Lord God 1788. Being the Bissextile, or Leap Year. Common Notes and Moveable-Feasts in 1788. Dominical Letter - - FE Golden Number - - - 3 Cycle of the Sun - - 5 Epact - - - - - - 22 Roman Indiction - - 6 Shrove Sunday 3 Feb. Easter Day - 23 Mar. Whit Sunday - 11 May. Trinity Sunday 18 May. Advent Sunday 30 Nov. Venus will be an Evening Star till the 8th of August, afterwards a Morning Star to the Year's End. Jupiter is an Evening Star till June 29, and then a Morning Star to the Year's End. Two Eclipses will happen this Year: I. June 4, Sun eclipsed, visible. Begins 7h 241/2m. morn. Middle 8 11 End 9 0 Digits eclipsed 3 59. II. November 27, Sun eclipsed, invisible, at 10 minutes past 6, afternoon.
Rider, Cardanus.Date: [1788]