The Rhode-Island almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1801 : ... calculated for the meridian of Newport--lat. 41 degrees 25 minutes north--long. 71 deg. 15 min. west. But will serve for any of the adjacent states.

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Southwick, Remington, 1779-1807.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 38391.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Rhode Island -- 1801.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Published at Newport [R.I.], : by Oliver Farnsworth, printer to the state of Rhode-Island, &c., [1800]

Notes:

Advertised in the Guardian of liberty, Newport, November 1, 1800.

Identical in content and typography (except for the title, the vignette, and arrangement of pages) with the Newport almanac for 1801, also issued by Farnsworth.

The astronomical content is apparently the work of Remington Southwick, whose almanacs for subsequent years were all published by Farnsworth after Southwick moved to Rhode Island. He was still living at his birthplace of Mendon, Mass., in 1800, and his signed almanac for 1801 was published at Dedham by H. Mann as the Columbian calendar. In the present almanac the calculations for th rising, setting, and phases of the moon are identical with those in the Columbian calendar; the astronomical notes on the calendar pages correspond with significant frequency; and the eclipse predictions are a briefer version with identical calculations. Differences appear in part of the calculations on the calendar pages because the Columbian almanac is for the meridian of Boston and the present one for that of Newport.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 38391).

Cited in:

Evans 38391

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1654

Drake, M. Almanacs, 12972

OCLC:

55828595