Time's telescope, universal and perpetual, fitted for all countries and capacities. Containing perpetual tables fitted to the old and new stile; shewing the movable and fixed feasts, the rising and setting of the sun and moon; and how to find the moon's place at any time proposed: also the changes and eclipses calculated for thirty years; with rules to find them for ever, according to the middle motion of the sun and moon. Also the magnitudes and distances of the planets; and a brief discourse of all kinds of meteors, or appearances in the heavens; natural prognosticks of the weather: with a general view of the four parts of the world. To the whole is added, a short description of time, and how it ought to be redeem'd / By Duncan Campbell.

  • Campbell, Duncan.
Date:
1734
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Credit: Time's telescope, universal and perpetual, fitted for all countries and capacities. Containing perpetual tables fitted to the old and new stile; shewing the movable and fixed feasts, the rising and setting of the sun and moon; and how to find the moon's place at any time proposed: also the changes and eclipses calculated for thirty years; with rules to find them for ever, according to the middle motion of the sun and moon. Also the magnitudes and distances of the planets; and a brief discourse of all kinds of meteors, or appearances in the heavens; natural prognosticks of the weather: with a general view of the four parts of the world. To the whole is added, a short description of time, and how it ought to be redeem'd / By Duncan Campbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    % The Explanation of thetvoofollowingTables. kepi ns the third (qua re on the Left Hand 5 and againft it, 1-8-15-22-29, all Tuefdays againft Wcdnefday, 2-9-16-23-30 which are ail the Hfednefdays in January $ and again, I wou-d know, what day of the Month the third Friday in January is ? 1 feek for Friday in that fquare, and againft it I find ±-11-1%- ^ r avid 18 anfwers the Queftion, 3d Friday. And i would, know, whu day of the Week is the 27^ day ? I look for 27 in the fquare ; againft it, on the Left, I find Sunday ; and ail the Numbers in that Line are Sundays. it it be requited, What day of the Week begins the Gregorian or ftoman Month, von mu ft in this Cafe fee what Day of the Week is the 4’h of the Julian or Britifh Month j and that Day begins the I\o- Month, till the Year 1800 * from 1800 till 1900 the 3^5 from 1900 till 2x00, the id; from 2100 till 2200 the fame Dav of the Week that begins our Month, begins theirs alio . For the firft of ours will be then equal to the 15th of theirs (the fame Day of the Week, 1 and 15.) Of the Roman Day of the Month. BY the foregoing Rules, find what day of the Week is the Ath of the Britifh Month, and that is the \ft of the Ro- man Month, as l have hinted before. For Example ; the 4th day of Jan. in the Year s 734, is Friday : Now i leek for the fquare in the id Table, that begins with Friday ; and having found it, againft it to the Right Hand, I have all the Fri¬ days in the Month ; in the tecond Line, all the Saturdays ; in the ih-rd, ail the Sundays, and fo on. Obferve, that in each of thefe fquares you have from 1 to 31, the higheft Number of Days in any Month : fo that you are to mind the Number of Davs in the Month you reckon in j you 11 find every Month’s Number of Days let down along with it in the firft Table. Note, when theie Years are expir’d, that the Reader may curftem eft. .. •*.' *v . . Mind th’ Explanation of each Table, To under ft and them, that mil make you* able. They re plain and obvious to the Learner's View, Who my Directions willingly purfus.