Merlinus Anglicus Junior: or the Starry messenger for the year of our redemption, 1699 : And from the creation, according to sacred writ, 5648 being the third after bissextil, or leap-year. Wherein is contained, (1) astronomical and meterological observations. (2) The state of the year, deduced according to art, from the solar ingresses, eclipses, variations configurations, aspects and conjunctions of the planets. (3) The rising and setting of the sun, moon and stars: also her southing; together with many usefull tables pertinent for such a work. Accommodated to the meridian of London, which lies in the latitude of 51 deg. 32 min. north, but may indifferently serve (without sensible error) for any other part of Great Britain. To which is added monthly observations and astrological predictions (or conjectures) upon the whole year, &c. Also an ephemeris of the diurnal motions and aspects of the planets, &c. the like (in all particulars) not extant. As also a short discourse of the feast of Easter. By Henry Coley teacher of the mathematicks and the cœlestial science, in Baldw.

  • Coley, Henry, 1633-1704?
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Merlinus Anglicus Junior
Starry messenger for the year of our redemption, 1699.

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London : printed by John Heptinstall, for the Company of Stationers, 1699.

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48 unnumbered pages

Edition

The eight and twentieth impression.

References note

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) A1450.

Notes

Title page and calendar in red and black.
Signatures: [A]-C.
Dedication to Sir Charles Izac, Kt. on verso of title page, signed: from my house in Baldwin's Court in Baldwin's Gardens, over-against the OldHole in the wall, near Greys-Inn-Lane. August 1st. 1698.
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1861:6) s1999 miun s

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