Collection of English Almanacs for the Years 1702-1835

SEXT

BEING

BISSEXTILE OR LEAP YEAR.

Containing many ufeful and entertaining Particulars, peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the delightful Study and Practice of the MATHEMATICKS.

The Fifty-fecond ALMANACK published of this Kind; and the Fortieth of the NEW-STYLE in ENGLAND.

With wife Intent

The Hand of Nature on peculiar Minds
Imprints a different Byafs, and to each
Decrees its Province in the common Toil.
To fome the taught the Fabrick of the Sphere,
The changeful Moon, the Circuit of the Stars,
The golden Zones of Heaven: to fome the gave
To weigh the Moment of eternal Things,
Of Time, and Space, and
And Will's quick Impulfe

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broken Chain,

AKENSIDE.

Printed for the Company of STATIONERS

And Sold by ROBERT HORSFIELD, at their Hall in

LUDGATE-STREET. 1792.

[Price Ten Pence fitched.]

Two, both Solar, and both invisible in Britain,,

March 22d, the Sun will be eclipfed, the conjunction at 5 h. 50 m. P. M. in longitude z° 49', Moon's latitude 3 N. The eclipfe will be central on the meridian at 5 h. 51 in long. 87° 52′ W. and lat., 4°3 N.

September 16th in the morning the Sun will be eclipfed; the conjunction at 9 h. 18′ in longitude 5 S. 24° 8', Moon's lat. 1 min. South. It will be central on the Meridian at gh. 18′ in long. 40° 30' E. and lat. 1°3 N.

Venus will be a Morning Star till Aug. 6th; then an Evening Star to the year's end.

Jupiter will be a Morning Star till April 15th, then an Evening Star till Nov. 3d, after that a Morning Star to the end of the year. The Georgian Planet will be in oppofition to the Sun, Feb. 5th at 11 at night, declination about 16° 28′ N.

Nothing at the time of writing this, has been seen or heard of the expected Comer; fo that it is moft likely that thofe of 1532, and 1661 were not the fame, but different ones.

Mr. John Dalton of Kendal fays, that the Sun's eclipfe on the 3d of April laft was obferved there, lat. 54° 20' N. long. near 2° 50' W.. The beginning o h. 9 m. P. M. greatest obfcuration about 1 h. 34 m. end 2 h. 53 m. duration 2 h. 44 m. The errors, continues he, in point of time, I believe will not exceed half a minate. The true noon was determined by a Meridian line previously made; alfo by two equal altitudes of the Sun the fame day, both agreeing to half a minute. The Sun's altitude was found at the end of the eclipse also, and the time of that was found by calculation to agree with the clock very nearly. And he concludes from the obfervations, that the tables have not given the Moon's latitude exactly.-But of this it is hard to judge, from obfervations made by thofe, who are not in the conftant practice of fa doing.

Letters, containing anfwers to the Critical and Philofophical Queftions and Ænigmas; from Mr. J. Cairns of Monckton, Mr. Thomas Leybourn of North Shields, Mr. J. Liddell of Habton, near Malton, Mr. H. Mellanby of Stockton, and Mr. John Ward of Hinckley, did not come to hand till that part of the Diary was finished.

The Gentlemen to whom the Prizes are allotted, are defired to fend for them to Mr. R. Horsfield at Stationers-Hall, London. Namely, Eumenes 12 Diaries, for the Anf. to the Pr. Queft. Mr. W. Watkins of Wylam-Engine, Northumberland, 9 Diaries for the Gen. Anf. Mr. J. T. Hughes of Cotherstone, near Barnard-Caftle, Yorkshire, g Diaries for the Anf, to the Pr. Ænigma; and Mr. J.Ward of Hinck ley, 6 Diaries, for being fo candid, as to mention the New London Magazine for March 1791. Another fent Answers copied from thence, without ever mentioning it.

All Catters Tornis Diary must be fent before the firft of May 1792, directed to the Author of the Gentleman's Diary, Stationers-Hall, London.

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The Quest, about the Malt-kiln has not fufficient data; nor that concerning the M Hopper, which is the reafon they are omitted.

JANUARY

First Quarter rit Day, 21 m. paft 4 Morning.
Full Moon 9th Day, 4 m. paft 9 Morning,
Laft Quarter 17th Day, 28 m. paft 2 Morning.
New Moon 23d Day, 27 m. past 5 Afternoon.
Firft Quarter 30th Day, 1 m. paft 11 Night.

enters zoth Day, 6 M. 11 M. Morning.

A pun. Circome. Days inc. 8 m. morn.

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TOld Christmas Day. 6 FEpiphany.