Father Hutchins revived; being an almanac and ephemeris; of the motions of the sun and moon; the true places and aspects of the planets; the rising and setting of the sun; and the rising, setting, and southing of the moon; for he year of our Lord 1794: being the second after bissextile, or leap-year and the 18th of American independence, until the 4th of July calculated for the meridian of New-Yark; but without an material alteration will answer for the states of Jew-Jersey and Connecticut, as well as the states adjacent to those. Containing also, the lunations, conjections, eclipses, judgment of the wather, rising and setting of the planets, length of days and nights, courts, roads, &c. Together with useful tables, chronological observations, and entertaining remarks. By Father Abraham Hutchins, mathematician.
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New-York: printed for and sold by John Reid[,] No. 17. Water Street, [1793]
- Publication year
- 1793
- ESTC No.
- W43648
- Grub Street ID
- 353262
- Description
- [36] p. : ill. ; 12⁰
- Note
- "Abraham Hutchins" is a pseudonym intended to exploit the popular reputation of the New York state calculator John Nathan Hutchins.
Comparison with The New England farmer's almanack for 1794 by Samuel Stearns (Springfield, Mass.) indicates that Stearns was probably the calculator of "Father Hutchins" for this year. The eclipse predictions are partly identical in their wording and almost entirely so in their calculations. Identical times are given for the moon's phases. The only astronomical notes in the calendar pages of The New England farmer are for the rising, southing, and setting of the "7 stars" or Pleiades, and these are duplicated here as to day and time. The other calculations vary because of the difference in meridian. Eclipses, lunar phases, and calendar notes are the usual points of identity in early almanacs calculated by the same author for separate regions.
Signatures: [A]? B-C?Subject Almanacs, American -- Early works to 1800.
Ephemerides -- Early works to 1800.