Almanaque Bristol 2017
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For other uses, see. An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is an listing a set of events forthcoming in the next year. It includes information like, farmers' dates, and other often arranged according to the. Figures and various statistics are found in almanacs, such as the and times of the and, dates of, hours of high and low,.
A calendar, which is a system for time keeping, in written form is usually produced as a most simple almanac: it includes additional information about the day of the week on which a particular day falls, major holidays, the phases of the moon, earthquake hazard levels etc. The set of events noted in an almanac are selected in view of a more or less specific group of readers e.g. Farmers, sailors, astronomers or others. Medieval folding almanac (15th century) After almanacs were devised, people still saw little difference between predicting the movements of the stars and tides, and predicting the future in the sense.
Early almanacs therefore contained general, as well as the more concrete information. In 1150 created such an almanac considered to be among the first modern almanacs. Copies of 12th century almanacs are found in the British Museum, and in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In 1300, created an almanac (Savilian Library, Oxford). This was the same year Roger Bacon, OFM, produced his as well. In 1327 created an almanac and later on of Oxford, in 1380.
In 1386 Nicholas de Lynne, Oxford produced an almanac. In 1457 the first printed almanac was published at Mainz, by Gutenberg (eight years before the famous Bible). Regio-Montanus produced an almanac in 1472 (Nuremberg, 1472), which was continued in print for several centuries in many editions. In 1497 the, translated from French became the first English printed almanac. Early modern era. An English Prophetic Almanack, 1825 England By the second half of the 16th century, yearly almanacs were being produced in England by men such as Anthony Askham, Thomas Buckminster, John Dade and Gabriel Frende.
In the 17th century, English almanacs were bestsellers, second only to the Bible; by the middle of the century, 400,000 almanacs were being produced annually (a complete listing can be found in the ). Until its deregulation in 1775, the Stationers' Company maintained a lucrative monopoly over almanac publication in England.
Richard Allestree (who is not the same as this ) wrote one of the more popular English almanacs, producing yearly volumes from 1617 to 1643, but his is by no means the earliest or the longest-running almanac. Works that satirized this type of publication appeared in the late 1500s. During the next century, a writer using the pseudonym of 'Poor Richard, Knight of the Burnt Island' began to publish a series of such parodies that were entitled.
The 1664 issue of the series stated: 'This month we may expect to hear of the Death of some Man, Woman, or Child, either in or Christendom.' British America and United States The first almanac printed in the of was William Pierce's 1639 An Almanac Calculated for. The almanac was the first in a series of such publications that, or Day, printed each year until 1649 in. The Cambridge/ area in Massachusetts soon became the first center in the colonies for the annual publication of almanacs, to be followed by during the first half of the eighteenth century. Title page of 1739 edition of Benjamin Franklin's of, issued his popular Astronomical Diary and Almanack in 1725 and annually after c.1732.
Published The Almanack by 'Poor Robin' for each year from 1728 to 1735. James' brother, Benjamin Franklin, published his annual in Philadelphia from 1732 to 1758. Of, issued the North-American Almanack, published annually from 1771 to 1784, as well as the first American nautical almanac, The Navigator's Kalendar, or Nautical Almanack, for 1783. Of, authored a series of almanacs, The United States Almanack, the earliest known copy of which bears the date of 1782., a free living near Ellicott's Mills, composed a series of almanacs for the years of 1792 to 1797. Contemporary use Currently published almanacs such as have expanded their scope and contents beyond that of their historical counterparts. Modern almanacs include a comprehensive presentation of statistical and descriptive data covering the entire world.
Contents also include discussions of topical developments and a summary of recent historical events. Other currently published almanacs (ca. 2006) include, and and The Almanac for Farmers & City Folk. The Inverness Almanac, an almanac/literary journal, was published in West Marin, California, from 2015 to 2016. In 2007, Harrowsmith Country Life Magazine launched a Canadian Almanac, written in Canada, with all-Canadian content. The nonprofit agrarian organization the Greenhorns currently publishes The New Farmer's Almanac as a resource for young farmers.
Major topics covered by almanacs (reflected by their tables of contents) include:, and, and, and, and /. Other examples include published by, The Almanac of American Literature, and The. From 1985 to 1990, approximately 53 per cent of all almanac sales sold in the United States were sold through the 'Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
(1985)' computer game pack that included a complimentary. The, as part of the data transmitted by each GPS satellite, contains coarse orbit and status information for all satellites in the constellation, an ionospheric model, and information to relate GPS derived time to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Hence the GPS almanac provide a similar goal as the ancient Babylonian almanac, to find celestial bodies. See also.
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It is a fact upon which most bibliographers agree, that the first almanac printed in America came out in 1639, and was entitled 'An Almanac Calculated for New England' by Mr. Pierce, Mariner.
The printer was Stephen Day, or Daye, to whom belongs the title of the first printer in North America. The press was at Cambridge, Mass., and its introduction was effected mainly through Rev. Jesse Glover, a wealthy Nonconformist minister, who had only recently left England. (3) North, Simon Newton Dexter (1884).
History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press, with a Catalogue of the Publications of the Census Year. Washington: Government Printing Office. From the original on 2016-04-13 – via. In 1639 appeared in Cambridge 'An Almanac Calculated for New England', by Mr.
William Pierce, Mariner (4). Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. February 2013.
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Retrieved 2018-12-30. (1741-1809), the author whose name appears on the cover of The Free Mason's Calendar, was a physician and astronomer. In addition to the Free Mason's Calendar, he issued other almanacs, including the North-American Almanack, published annually from 1771-1784, as well as the first American nautical almanac, The Navigator's Kalendar, or Nautical Almanack, for 1783. Davis, Nancy M.
Philadelphia Connection. Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation: Philadelphia Chapter. Archived from on 2006-01-09. Retrieved 2018-09-28. After the war, he (Ellicott) returned to Fountainvale, the family home in Ellicott Upper Mills, and published a series of almanacs, ‘The United States Almanack.’ (The earliest known copy is dated 1782.).
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Further reading. T.J. Tomlin, A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2014. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to. Has original text related to this article.
