Wheeler's North-American calendar, or An almanack, for the year of our Lord 1792 ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818.

West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 23989.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Rhode Island -- 1792.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Providence: : Printed and sold by Bennett Wheeler., [1791]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Attributed by Evans to Benjamin West, but the actual calculator was Nathan Daboll. The eclipse predictions are identical with those in The New England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1792 (New London, Conn.), calculated by Daboll under his pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter. The astronomical and horological notes on the calendar pages are a selection of those in "Freebetter", with a few others added. The calculations for the moon are duplicated throughout. Most of those for the sun and tides, and some of those in the notes, vary because of the difference in meridian between New London and Providence.

Advertised in the United States chronicle, Providence, Oct. 20, 1791.

The illustration is an eclipse diagram on the title page.

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 23989).

Cited in:

Evans 23989

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1238

Drake, M. Almanacs, 12922

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