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almanac almanac
almanac originally, a calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. The Roman fasti, originally a list of dies fasti (days when... Read more
Almanacs Almanacs
ALMANACS ALMANACS. One of the first publications to issue from the press in British North America was An Almanack for New England for 1639, printed by Stephen Daye in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Almanacs have been part of American culture ever since, adapting themselves to changing times while... Read more
nautical almanac nautical almanac
nautical almanac, a periodical publication of astronomical and other, primarily ephemeral, information intended for the navigator and nautical astronomer. The earliest nautical almanac was the Connoissance des temps ou des mouvements celestes published in Paris under royal patent by the Bureau des... Read more
ephemeris ephemeris
ephemeris (pl., ephemerides), table listing the position of one or more celestial bodies for each day of the year. The French publication Connaissance de Temps is the oldest of the national astronomical ephemerides, founded in 1679. The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris (usually... Read more
Shem Shem
Shem in the Bible, eldest son of Noah; presented as the ancestor of the Semites, particularly of the Hebrews and Arabs. An apocalypse called the Paraphrase of Shem was found among the Nag Hammadi codices. The Treatise of Shem, known from a 15th-century Syriac manuscript, is an astrological... Read more
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
BRYUSOV, VALERY YAKOVLEVICH (1873–1924), poet, novelist, playwright, critic, translator. Born in Moscow, Valery Bryusov was an early proponent of Symbolism in Russia. As editor of the almanac Russkie Simvolisty (Russian symbolists, 1894 Read more
Nathaniel Ames Nathaniel Ames
Nathaniel Ames 1708-64, American almanac maker, b. Bridgewater, Mass. His Astronomical Diary and Almanack, begun in 1725 and issued annually after c.1732 from Dedham, Mass., was highly popular and served as a model for Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack and later almanacs. It had a circulation... Read more
John Partridge John Partridge
Partridge, John (1643-1715) John Partridge, an influential member of the large astrological community in late seventeenth-century London, was one of several people known for his production of almanacs. As a youth he was apprenticed to a shoemaker, but in his leisure moments he educated himself and... Read more
phrenology phrenology
phrenology study of the shape of the human skull in order to draw conclusions about particular character traits and mental faculties. The theory was developed about 1800 by the German physiologist Franz Joseph Gall and popularized in the United States by Orson Fowler and Lorenzo Fowler through... Read more
celestial navigation celestial navigation
celestial navigation, or astronomical navigation. The sextant, the chronometer (nowadays possibly a quartz watch), the nautical almanac, and navigation tables (now perhaps some form of calculator or computer) in one form or another remain the essential requirements for celestial navigation, by... Read more

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