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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:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 38392.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Almanacs -- Rhode Island -- 1801.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Published at Newport [R.I.], : by Oliver Farnsworth, printer to the state of Rhode-Island, andc. Great allowance to those who purchase quantities., [1800]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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 the 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.
- 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 38392).
- Cited in:
- Evans 38392
- Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1654
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 12973
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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