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Olympia d⁻omata or An almanack for the year of our Lord God 1687 : being the 3d after bissextile or

Creator:: Wing, John, 1643-1726
Published / Created:: 1687.
Call Number:: 2013 1188
Image Count:: 48
Alternative Title:: Olympia dōmata and Almanack for the year of our Lord God 1687
Description:: BEIN 2013 1188: Armorial bookplate: Bryan Fausset. Inscriptions: Simon Hughes. Scant manuscript annotations on rear free endpaper. No. 7 of 12 titles bound together., Title page and calendar in red and black., First two words of title in Greek characters., and Signatures: A-C⁸.
Publisher:: Printed by John Hayes, printer to the University
Subject (Topic):: Almanacs, English, Ephemerides, and Astrology
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Olympia d⁻omata or An almanack for the year of our Lord God 1687 : being the 3d after bissextile or leap-year, and from the worlds creation, 5636. Wherein is contained the geocentric places of the planets both in longitude and latitude from Astronomia Britannica; as also the lunations, conjunctions and aspects of the planets, the increase, decrease and length of the day and night, the moons rising, southing and setting whereby may be known the exact hour of the night when either the moon or 7 stars are seen. Calculated according to art and referred to the horizon of the ancient and renowned borrough-town of Stamford, whose longitude is 23 deg. 50 minutes, latitude 52 deg. 40 min. fitting all the middle counties of England, and without sensible errour the whole kingdom