A treatise of eclipses of the sun and moon for thirty-five years, commencing anno 1715, ending 1749 : containing the beginning, middle and ending, the digits eclipsed together, with the types of those that will be visible at London, with the general times of the solar eclipses, and the limits of the shade of the moon determined to which are added, the calculations of the times of the transits of Venus and Mercury over the sun, with the types thereof, for seventy-nine years and the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn, to the year 1821 / by Charles Leadbetter.

  • Leadbetter, Charles, active 1728.
Date:
1731
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise of eclipses of the sun and moon for thirty-five years, commencing anno 1715, ending 1749 : containing the beginning, middle and ending, the digits eclipsed together, with the types of those that will be visible at London, with the general times of the solar eclipses, and the limits of the shade of the moon determined to which are added, the calculations of the times of the transits of Venus and Mercury over the sun, with the types thereof, for seventy-nine years and the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn, to the year 1821 / by Charles Leadbetter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Liles WON ci tt NaN f tere A Treatife Of. Becht pessoa it | he fir will be an Eclipfe of the Moov, and vifibl¢ on |Satiirday the 16th day of March in the Morning, according to the following Calculation. | Ae Du Mts: 8 a Begin. is 1717, March 15 13 43 37 a True Ecliptick @ = | 1454.9 7 a4 Middle, or great darknefs 15 0 37 4 Ba Bnd of the Eclipfe =. 46.17 37° PLM. 4 @ g - Total duration 2534 0 gia Digits Eclipfed G31 6 The Type. ¢ op Shweta AN I IO ts 2 & This Eclipfe falls in 6 deg. v4, and in the 8th Houfe of Heaven, and Authors tell us, that it fignifies a fickly Air, and that Corn will be dear, with Tem pefts of Hail, and Rain; danger to Woman in Child-bed, and the Application of } to § in the 8th, fhews the death of many aged People. |