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Stoddard's diary: or, The Columbia almanack, for the year of our Lord 1796 : ... Calculated for latitude 42 degrees north, and for a meridian 3 degrees east of Georgetown the intended permanent residence of Congress. / By Samuel Mott, mathematician.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29124.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Almanacs -- New York (State) -- 1796.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (48 unnumbered pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Hudson [N.Y.]: : Printed and sold by Ashbel Stoddard. Great allowance to those who purchase quantities., [1795]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Evans states that the astronomical calculations in this almanac are by Andrew Beers, assuming this from the presence of an advertisement by Beers on the last page. In fact, the calculations, eclipse predictions, and most of the astronomical notes on the calendar pages are different from those in the other New York state almanacs calculated by Beers for 1796, e.g. Greenleaf's and Hutchins improved.
- On the calendar page for each month in Stoddard except June, from two to six of the astronomical notes found in Beers' almanacs appear, at the same dates or within a day, among those by Mott. Since duplication of such material is seldom found in early almanacs by different calculators, they probably were inserted by Beers, who perhaps revised or completed the whole. This supposition would account for the presence of his advertisement, which is otherwise found only in almanacs calculated by him. Subsequent almanacs in the Stoddard series are by Beers.
- 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 29124).
- Cited in:
- Evans 29124
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 6048
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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