Weatherwise's town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1783 ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, New England, lat. 42: 25 n. But will also serve the adjacent states without any sensible error. By Abraham Weatherwise, philom.

People / Organizations

• Robert Hodge ("sold by")

Imprint

Boston: Printed and sold by Robert Hodge, at his office in Marshall's Lane, near the Boston Stone, [1782]

Publication year

1782-1782

ESTC No.

W25225

Grub Street ID

335188

Description

[24] p., [1] folded leaf : ill. ; 12⁰

Note

Erroneously attributed to David Rittenhouse by Evans. The actual calculator appears to have been Nathan Daboll, the author of The New-England almanack and gentleman's and lady's diary for 1783 (New London, Conn.) under his pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter. The eclipse predictions on p. [4] of Weatherwise are identical in their wording and calculations, apart from slight variations, with those at the end of Freebetter. The astronomical, horological, and other notes correspond so closely as to be evidently by the same hand. The calendar page calculations for the rising, setting and phases of the moon are identical throughout except for a half a dozen instances, though the calculations for the sun and tides on these pages in Freebetter are fitted to Connecticut rather than to Massachusetts as in Weatherwise.

Advertised in the Independent ledger, Boston, Oct. 21, 1782.

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Signatures: [A]? B? C? D?