The Washington almanac, for the year of our Lord,1811... / Calculated for the meridians of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. By Abraham Sharp...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharp, Joshua.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 21953.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Maryland -- 1811.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Maryland -- Baltimore.

Physical Description:

48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore: : Printed for Conrad, Lucas & Co. no. 138, Market-Street; Samuel Jefferis, John Vance & Co. John Kingston, Abner Neal, and Warner & Hanna. A. Miltenberger, printer., [1810]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

The calculator was Joshua Sharp. The calculations for the sun, moon, and eclipses, and the astronomical notes on the calendar pages are identical (barring a few additions) with those in The Annual visiter for 1811 (Wilmington), The New Jersey and Pennsylvania almanac for 1811 (Trenton: G. Sherman), and Stewart's East and West Jersey almanac for 1811 (Trenton: R. Stewart), all calculated by Joshua Sharp.

The Annual visiter, and Stewart's, lack the column of time equations. The New Jersey and Pennsylvania almanac groups these on a separate page, and adds a column for the sun's declination.

"Abraham Sharp" is a name found in the Middle Atlantic states, but is also that of an eminent English astronomer and mathematician (1651-1742).

Title vignette. The Zodiac is the only other illustration.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [48].

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 21953).

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