A new prognostication for the year of our blessed Lord 1681.: Being the first after leap-year. Containing the moveable feasts, the eclipses, the four quarters of the year: the changes of the moon, with the disposition of the weather. The dismal dayes. And the whole known fairs of Scotland. With other observations. Serving most fitly for the most part of the kingdom of Scotland, but more especially for our city of Glasgow, where the pole is elevated 55 deg. 55 min. / At Aberdene, by an expert mathematician.
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A new prognostication for the year of our blessed Lord 1681.: Being the first after leap-year. Containing the moveable feasts, the eclipses, the four quarters of the year: the changes of the moon, with the disposition of the weather. The dismal dayes. And the whole known fairs of Scotland. With other observations. Serving most fitly for the most part of the kingdom of Scotland, but more especially for our city of Glasgow, where the pole is elevated 55 deg. 55 min. / At Aberdene, by an expert mathematician.
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Glasgow :: By Robert Sanders, Printer to the City and University, and are to be sold at his shop,
1681.
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Ephemerides.
Astrology
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"A new prognostication for the year of our blessed Lord 1681.: Being the first after leap-year. Containing the moveable feasts, the eclipses, the four quarters of the year: the changes of the moon, with the disposition of the weather. The dismal dayes. And the whole known fairs of Scotland. With other observations. Serving most fitly for the most part of the kingdom of Scotland, but more especially for our city of Glasgow, where the pole is elevated 55 deg. 55 min. / At Aberdene, by an expert mathematician." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A75159.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2024.
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Four Eclipses this year Two of the Sun, and two of the Moon.
THe first of the Moon, Feb. 22. day, in 15. degrees of Pisces about 11. hours before noon, This Eclipse will be vi∣sible to our Antipodes. Second of the Sun, March 10. day, at 1. in the Morning. Third of the Moon, 19. of August, about 3. in the Morning. in 6. degrees of the Caelestial sign Pisces this will be a visible and Total Eclipse unto us. And therefore very worthy the pains of those Industrous Astronomers: Among us to observe. According to the Doctrine of Alphousus, touch∣ing the Collours of Eclipses, the Moon, while she labours under this defect, will appear of a blackish Colour, mixed with palness.
The Fourth and last Eclipse of the Sun, the 12. of September, about 3. in the morning in 20. degrees of Virgo; It will be inconspi∣cuous as to us, and but a small Eclipse of it self; where most Visible▪
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