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Speculum uranicum, or, An almanack and prognostication for the year of our Lord God 1683 : being the third from the bissextile ... : wherein is contained the state of the year, the eclipses, lunations, conjunctions, and aspects of the planets, and meteorological observations, with the rising, southing, and setting of the sun, moon, and fixed stars throughout the whole year ... : calculated ... and referred to the ... city of London ... / by Thomas Fowle.
Fowle, Thomas.
Date
1683
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Lillys strange and wonderful prognostication : being a relation of many universal accidents that will come to pass in this year, 1681, according to the significations of the celestial bodies, as well in this our English nation, as in parts beyond the seas : with a sober caution to all by speedy repentance to avert the judgments that are impendent.
Lilly, William, 1602-1681.
Date
1681
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Perkins : A new almanack, for the year of our Lord God, 1686. : Being the second after leap-year, and from the Worlds creation according to sacred writ, 5635 years. : Composed, and chiefly referred to the famous city of London; but (without sensible error) may serve for any other place in Great Britain. : Adorned with a compendious chronology of things worth remembrance, since the Creation to this present year; as also the weather, the sun & moons rising & setting, with the high-wayes, &c. and many other useful things, proper for such a work. The like not extant by any other, being of general use for all men. / Made and set forth by F. Perkins.
Perkins, F. (Francis)
Date
1686
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An almanack for the year of our Lord God 1675 : Being the third after bissextile, or leap-year. By M.F. Philomath.
M. F., active 19th century.
Date
[1675]
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Aristotle's new book of problems, set forth by way of question and answer. To which are added, a great number from other famous philosophers, astrologers, astronomers, and physicians. Shewing the secrets of nature and art: together with the interpretation of dreams, signification of moles in any part, the nature of ghosts, the reason of eclipses of the sun and moon; also, wonders in the creation, as earthquakes, ebbing and flowing of the sea, &c.
Aristotle.
Date
1741
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The Protestant almanack for the year from [bracket] the incarnation of Jesus Christ, 1681. our deliverance from popery by Queen Eliz. 122 : Being the first after bissextile or leap-year. Wherein the bloody aspects, fatal oppositions, diabolical conjunctions, and pernicious revolutions of the papacy against the Lord Christ and the Lords anointed are described. With the change of the moon, the rising and setting of the sun, some observable fairs, and the eclipses; together with the moons place in the zodiac, throughout each month of the year. Calculated according to art, for the meridian of Babylon, where the Pope is elevated a hundred and fifty degrees above all reason, right, and religion; above kings, canons,[couneils] conscience, and every thing therein called God, 2 Thes. 2. And may without sensible error, indifferently serve the whole papacy. / By Philoprotest, a well-willer to the mathematicks.
Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.
Date
1681
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Two famous prophesies and predictions of Mr. William Lilly, the most judicious and learned astrologer of the age : taken from his secret writings, penned by him in 1644 : the former of which, exactly pointing at the times, by foretelling the mischief, danger and misery these, and other Protestant kingdoms, should be exposed to, by the crafty counsels and treacheries of the Romish priests, and by what means their deliverance should be wrought.
Lilly, William, 1602-1681.
Date
[1688?]
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Smith, 1652 : a new almanack and prognostication for the yeare of our Lord God, MDCLII ... in which is contained the daily motion of the planets ... with an astrological judgement of the eclipses and what effects may be expected from them in England, Scotland & Ireland ... calculated for the meridian of London / by John Smith.
Smith, John.
Date
1652
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Olympia domata, or, An almanack and prognostication for the year of our Lord, 1662 : being the second after bissextile or leap-year, and from the creation of the world, 5611 : [wherein is conteined the state of the] whole year ... [calculated according to art, and referred] to the horizon of the ancient and renowned borough-town of Stamford ... fitting all the middle counties of England, and without sensible errour the whole nation / by Vincent Wing.
Wing, Vincent, 1619-1668.
Date
1662
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Anglicus : or, An ephemeris for 1646. Delivering mathematically the successe of this yeers actions, between the King and Parliament of England. With astrologicall aphorismes, expedient for physitians and others, usefull for students in this science. To which is added The nativity of Prince Rupert. / By William Lilly student in Astrology.
Lilly, William, 1602-1681.
Date
1646
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Ephemerides of the celestial motions for X years : beginning anno 1672 (where the industrious Mr Wings expired) and ending an. 1681 : calculated according to art from new tables, and compared with the most correct observations of the noble Tycho, Kepler, Mr. Wright, and other approved astronomers : accomodated to the meridian of ... London : with an introduction to the use thereof / by John Gadbury.
Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.
Date
1672
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Apollo Anglicanus : The English Apollo : assisting all persons in the right understanding of this years revolution, as also of things past, present, and to come ... / by Richard Saunders.
Saunders, Richard, 1613-1675.
Date
1671
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Ranger 1617 : an almanacke seruing for the yeare of our Lord MDCXVII, being the yeare from the worlds creation 5579, & the first from the leap yeare : calculated and properly referred to the paralell and meridian of the honourable citty of Yorke, where the pole is mounted aboue the horizon 54. deg. 20. mi., and may serue without sensible error all the parts of Great Brittaine which lie betwixt the riuers of Trent and Tweed / by Phillip Ranger.
Ranger, Philip, active 1615-1631.
Date
[1617]
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Dove : speculum anni à partu virginis M.DC.LXXII, or, an almanack for the year of our Lord God 1672 : being the bissextile or leap-year, and from the worlds creation, 5676 : calculated properly for the famous university and town of Cambridge ... but may indifferently serve for any other place within this kingdom.
Dove, Jonathan.
Date
1672
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Astrologie theologized : wherein is set forth, vvhat astrologie, and the light of nature is. What influence the starres naturally have on man, and how the same may be diverted and avoided. As also, that the outward man, how eminent soever in all naturall and politicall sciences, is to bee denied, and die in us. And, that the inward man by the light of grace, through profession and practice of a holy life, is to be acknowledged and live in us: which is the onely means to keep the true Sabbath in inward holinesse, and free from outward pollution. / By Valentine Weigelius.
Weigel, Valentin, 1533-1588.
Date
1649
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Rose, 1676 : a new almanack for the year ... 1676 ... calculated for the meridian of the honorable city of London ... and may serve for any other part of England / by George Rose.
Rose, George (Mathematician)
Date
1676
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Rudstone 1611 : an almanack and prognostication for this present ye[a?]re of grace 1611, being the third from the leape yeare : ... for the parallel and meridian of the Univerity of Cambridge, the pole there eleuated 52. degrees 12. minut, seruing also this whole monarchie of Great Britaine / by Thomas Rudstone.
Rudston, Thomas, active 1606-1613.
Date
[1611]
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An astrological discourse : manifestly proving the powerful influence of planets and fixed stars upon elementary bodies, in justification of the verity of astrology : together with an astrological judgment upon the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1603 / both written by ... Sir Christopher Heydon Knight, and never till now made publike.
Heydon, Christopher, Sir, 1561-1623.
Date
1690
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Rivers, an almanack for the yeare of our Lord Christ MDCXL : being the bissextile or leap-yeare, and since the creation of the vvorld 5589 : calculated for the famous universitie and tovvn of Cambridge, and may generally serve for the vvhole isle of Great Britain / by Peregrine Rivers.
Rivers, Peregrine.
Date
[1640]
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Calendarium astrologicum, or, An almanack for the year of our Lord God 1683 : being the third after the leap-year ... unto which is added a description of the most eminent roads in England, from town to town, and the certain time of any mart or fair happening in any of them / by Thomas Trigge.
Trigge, Thomas.
Date
1683
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Edinburgh's true almanack, or A new prognostication for the year of our Lord, 1685 : Being the first year after bissextile or leap year, and from the creation of the world, 5634. Exactly calculated according to art, for the meridian of the most famous city of Edinburgh, whose latitude is 56 d. 00 m. and longitude is 11 d. 37 m. from Pico Taniriff according to the newest tables. / By James Paterson mathematician.
Paterson, James (Mathematician), active 1685-1692.
Date
For the year 1685
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1683, Apollo Anglicanus : The English Apollo, assisting all persons in the right understanding of this years revolution, as also of things past, present, and to come : with necessary tables plain and useful, a twofold kalendar ... being the third after bissextile or leap-year : to which is added short notes upon every day throughout the year, shewing (in a general way) good and bad days therein, also a modest vindication of the art of astrology ... / Richard Saunders.
Saunders, Richard, 1613-1675.
Date
1683
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Speculum anni 1662 being the second after bissextile or leap-year, or, An almanack fitted for both sea-men and land-men : wherein is contained the places both of sun and moon and a tide table : and also the terms and the fairs happening in in [sic] England and Wales in every month of the kalendar, also the quarterly ingresses and eclipses this year : with a guide for travellers and other necessary tables the like not hitherto published : calculated for the meridian of London / by T. Bird.
Bird, Thomas.
Date
[1662]
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[A prognostication Buckminster 1591].
Buckminster, Thomas, approximately 1531-1599?
Date
[1591]
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The astrological physitian : Shewing, how to finde out the cause and nature of a disease, according to the secret rules of the art of astrology. Also generall rules and instructions, teaching how to discover what part of the body is afflicted. With a perfect description of the diseases and infirmities, signified by the planets, in any of the twelve zodiacall constellations, together with a most exact method, shewing how to finde whether the sick shall live or dye, according to naturall causes; with an exact way how to finde the true crysis, judiciall or criticall dayes. Being of excellent use for all such as study physick. / By Wil: Andrevvs student in the Mathematicks and Astrology.
Andrews, William, approximately 1635-1713.
Date
1656
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Online

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