Olympia d¯omata. Or, An almanack and prognostication for the year of our Lord, 1660. Being the bissextile, or leap-year, and from the creation of the world 5609. Wherein is conteined the state of the whole yeare, the ecipses, lunations, conjunctions, & aspects of the planets, the length and increase and decrease of dayes and nights, with the rising, southing, and setting of the sun, moon, and seven stars, every day in the yeare, whereby may be known the true hour of the night at all times when the moon and the stars are seen. To which is annexed a short mathematical discourse of the systeme of the world, proving that the sun moves not, but the earth; wherein the arguments of the anti-Copernican[s] are refuted, and the truth (though succinctly, yet) cleerly proved by geometrical demonstration. Calculated according to art and referred to the meridian of the ancient burroug-town o[f] Stamford, whose longitude is 23 d. 50 m. latitude 52 deg. 40 min. fitting all the middle counties of

People / Organizations

• Vincent Wing (Author)

Imprint

London: pinted by R. & W. Leybourn; [f]or the Company of Stationers, 1660.

Publication year

1660-1660

ESTC No.

R27736

Grub Street ID

110874

Description

[48] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 8⁰

Note

Signatures: A-C?.

The first two words of the title are transliterated from Greek.

Quires A and B are printed in red and black.

Various letters on the titlepage failed to print.

Uncontrolled note

Catalogued from original at the British Library