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. By John Wing mathemat.

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  • 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. By John Wing mathemat.
  • Olympia d?mata Almanack for the year of our Lord God 1687
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Imprint
Cambridge: printed by John Hayes, printer to the University, 1687.
Publication year
1687-1687
ESTC No.
R2337
Grub Street ID
105160
Description
[48] p. : ill. (woodcut), tables ; 8⁰
Note
Title page and calendar in red and black.

First two words of title in Greek characters.

Signatures: A-C?.Citation/references Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), A2778