Nuncius coelestis: or, The starry messenger for the year of our redemption 1684. : And from the creation, according to sacred writ 5633. Being the bissextile or leap-year. Wherein is contained (1) Astronomical and meteorological observations. (2) Astrological predictions of the state of the year, deduced according to art, from the solar ingresses, eclipses, various configurations, aspects and conjunctions of the planets. (3) The rising and setting of the sun and moon: also her southing; together with many useful rules and tables pertinent for such a work, accomodated 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, some remarks upon the famous conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, in 1682. and 1683, &c. By Henry Coley, student in the mathematicks and the coelestial science.

  • Coley, Henry, 1633-1704.
Date:
1684
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About this work

Publication/Creation

London : printed by A[lice]. G[rover]. for the Company of Stationers, 1684.

Physical description

48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 8vo (15 cm)

Edition

The thirteenth impression.

Notes

Title page and calendar printed in red and black.
Printer's name from Wing CD.
Signatures: [A]-C⁸.
With a final advertisement leaf.

References note

Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), A1461
ESTC R5329

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