A royal almanack and meteorological diary for the year of our Lord 1778, and of the Julian period 6491, the second after bissextile or Leap-Year, and the eighteenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George III. Containing, The Feasts and Fasts of the Church of England; The Times of the Lunations; The Rising and Setting of the Sun; The Equation of Time for the Regulating of Clocks and Watches; The Moon's Rising and Setting; The Times of High Water at London-Bridge, Morning and Afternoon; The Aspects of the Planets and Weather; Also, for every Sixth Day, The Increase and Decrease of Days; The Beginning and End of Daylight; The Nightly Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Planets and Seven Stars; Adapted to the Meridian and Latitude of London. Likewise, An exact Meteorological Journal for the preceding Year; or the State of the Barometer and Thermometer, with the Winds, Weather, &c. as they were registered every Day. Also, The Depth of Rain which sell, and the Observations made every Month. To which are added, The Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and other remarkable Phaenomena that will happen this Year; The Middlesex Commencement of the Sessions of the Peace; A Table of the Terms and their Returns; And for finding the Times of High Water at most of the Seaports in this Kingdom. By Henry Andrews, Teacher of the Mathematics, at Royston, Herts.

  • Andrews, Henry, active 18th century.
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London : printed for T. Carnan, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, who dispossessed the Stationers of the Privilege of Printing Almanacks, which they had unjustly Monopolized 170 Years, [1778]

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[16]p. ; 40.

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ESTC T75319

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