An Aftronomical Diary,
OR, AN

ALMANACK

For the Year of Our Lord CHRIS I

I 7 2 6.

And from the Creation of the World; according to the best of Prophane Hiftory, 5675. But by the Account of the Holy Scripture, 5688: It being the Second after Biffextile or Leap Year, And the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Our Moft Gracious Sovereign Lord KING GEORGE Wherein is Contain'd the Lunations, Eclipfes of the Luminaries, the Planets Motions & Mutual Afpe&s, the Suns Rifing and Setting, Time of High Water, Courts, Spring Tides, judgment of the Weather. Together with many other Things neceffary for fuch a Work..

Calculated for the Meridian of Bolton, N. England,
Wbofe Latitude is 42 deg. 25 min North.

By NATHANIEL AM.ES, Jun.
Student in Phyfick and Aftronomy.

NOW Seventeen hundred & Twenty Six the Sun,,
His annual courfe face CHRIST bis Birth hath run.
Strange Revolutions in this time have been,
In divers Lands, Kingdoms and Countries feen.
Some Years were happy, fome with Waes perplex.,
And G O D knows whe ball Live unto the next.

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The title page of the first Almanack of Dr. Ames.

Kind Reader,

T

HE. Method of this Almanack is fo plain that it needs no Explanation, except the place of Saturn and Jupiter, which is over the laf Column, at the top of every Page, for the 18th, 16th, and 24th Days of every Month in this year.

The Names and Characters of the Planets, Signs, Afpe&s and Nodes are thefe,

The Planets,

The Signs,

Saturn, Jupiter 1, Mars & Sol or Sun O,
Venus 9,Mercury Luna or the Moon >

Aries, Taurus Gemini I,Cancer Leon,
Virgo Libra,Scorpio m. Sagitarius,Ca
pricorn VS, Aquarius A, Pifces X.

The Old Aspects are Five inNumber, as the Conjunction o,
Sextile Quartile O, Trine A, Oppofition 8.

Note, The Glorious Planet Venus is Occidental or

Evening Star, till the as of March, from thence
Oriential or Morning Star, to the Years End.

The second page of Dr. Ames' first Almanack,