The Lancaster almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1776 : ... Fitted to the lattitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of near five hours west from London; but may without sensible error, serve all the northern colonies. / By Anthony Sharp, philom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharp, Anthony.

Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 14431.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1776.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (32 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

Lancaster [Pa.]: : Printed and sold by Francis Bailey, at the printing office in King's Street, near the market., [1775]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

"Anthony Sharp" is a pseudonym found only in the almanacs published by Bailey.

Evans' attribution of this almanac to David Rittenhouse seems verified by comparison with Father Abraham's almanac and the Universal almanack for 1776, published at Philadelphia, both of which name him as their calculator.

The three almanacs are identical in their calculations excepting those for the sun in some months, giving three different sets of times for its rising and setting in March alone. The astronomical notes on the calendar pages differ partly and sometimes widely, but seem clearly overall to be by the same author.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Oct. 18, 1775.

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 14431).

Cited in:

Evans 14431

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3285

Drake, M. Almanacs, 10021

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