Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord 1779 : ... Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of near five hours west from London; but may, without sensible error, serve all the northern colonies. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 16067. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | "Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym. With the exception of the Hoch-Deutsch-Americanische Calender, all the almanacs published in Pennsylvania in 1779 contain the same calculations and have most of the same astronomical notes on the calendar pages, and are clearly the work of the same author. (In those published in Lancaster, the calculations for the sun and a few for the bright stars are adjusted slightly in the autumn months.) The only one of these almanacs naming a real person as its calculator is Der Gantz neue verbesserte nord-americanische Calender (Lancaster), by David Rittenhouse. Advertised in the Pennsylvania packet, Philadelphia, Oct. 6, 1778. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm. (duodecimo) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |