Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1830, Vol. 1: Comprising a Calendar for the Year; Astronomical Information; Miscellaneous Directions, Hints and Remarks; And Statistical and Other Particulars Respecting Foreign Countries and the United States
The second part contains information, Communicated in a simple and intelligible form, respecting the celestial changes and most common astronomical appearances. An account of Almanacs is followed by an explanation of the division Of time into Days, Weeks, Months, and Years; the Holydays of the Church; the variety of the Seasons; the Signs Of the Zodiac Astrology; the Moon's Phases, and Eclipses; Tides; Spots on the Sun the Rotation of the Planets; the Orbits of the Plan; ets; and much information on other kindred topics, designed to elucidate and adapt them to the understanding Of persons Of all degrees of knowledge.
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