Thomas's Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, Newhampshire & Vermont almanack, with an ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1790: ... Fitted to the latitude and longitude of the town of Boston, but will serve without essential variation for the adjacent states...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gleason, Ezra, 1748-1808?

Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21857.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1790.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (48 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Printed at Worcester [Mass.], : by Isaiah Thomas. (Price 40 s. per gross. 4 s. per dozen. Six pence single.), [1789]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Though the Thomas almanacs through 1795 were ascribed by Evans to Ezra Gleason, most can be attributed with varying degrees of certainty to other identifiable calculators. Those for 1786-1789 were by Samuel Stearns, and the present issue is probably also his work. The wording of the eclipse predictions, the note on pages [3] about "the Blazing Star we mentioned in our last year's almanack," the calculations for the moon's southing, and those for its rising and setting (with a few scattered variations) are identical with the same matter in Stearns' The universal calendar and North American almanack for 1790 (Bennington, Vt.) which was otherwise calculated for Vermont. The same is true for the calculations of the rising, setting and southing of the 7 stars or Pleiades, except that in Thomas's almanac these are given for each day, but in The universal calendar for only two days each month.

In the manuscript collection of the American Antiquarian Society is a letter from Daniel George to Isaiah Thomas, dated Aug. 15, 1789, replying to Thomas's request for copy for an almanac, and stating his willingness to provide it, except that he lacks the tables necessary to prepare an ephemeris of the planets' places in the zodiac which Thomas desires. He offers instead a table of the sun's place for every second day in the year. In the present almanac, both these tables appear at the head of the calendar pages. In previous issues, only the planets' ephemeris appeared; in subsequent issues through 1794, only the sun's ephemeris for alternate days is found. These issues, for 1791-1794, are attributed by Nichols to Daniel George.

The title page of the New-England farmer's almanack for 1794 (Springfield, Mass.) reads: "Calculated by the Hon. Samuel Sternes, late calculator of Thomas' much approved almanack."

Advertised in the Massachusetts spy, Worcester, Nov. 5, 1789.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.

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 21857).

Cited in:

Evans 21857

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3436

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