Father Abraham's almanack, for the year of our Lord 1783 : ... Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of near five hours west from London. / By Abraham Weatherwise, gent.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Briggs, Isaac, 1763-1825.

Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17702.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1783.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (32 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed by John Dunlap., [1782]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Erroneously attributed by Evans to David Rittenhouse. The author was Isaac Briggs, then a tutor at Pennsylvania College, who calculated Der Gantz neue verbesserte nord-americanische Calender for 1783, published at Lancaster. All of the Pennsylvania almanacs for this year have the same calculations and astronomical notes on the calendar pages, with additions and some omissions, as the Nord-Americanische Calender, which alone names a real person as its author.

Samuel Stearns, the Massachusetts calculator, states: "I observed at Philadelphia, in 1783, that a number of almanacks were published from one calculation, under fictitious names, as Father Abraham, Poor Will, Poor Richard, &c.; but could not learn who was the author. The same calculation was also published in the Jersies, under some other name."--The American oracle (New York, 1791) pages 44.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania packet, Philadelphia, Nov. 23, 1782.

The Anatomy is the only illustration.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 17702).

Cited in:

Evans 17702

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4260

Drake, M. Almanacs, 10142

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