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A Friend's astronomical diary: or Almanac, for the year of Christian aera, 1796 [microform] : ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, Massachusetts, lat. 42 deg. 25 min. north. But may serve for any of the New-England states. / By Benjamin Fry, who had his education in astronomy under the tuition of Dr. Nathaniel Low, of Berwick. ; [Four lines of verse].

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Fry, Benjamin
Published
Boston : Printed by Samuel Etheridge, for William P. Blake. Copyright for 1796, secured, [1795]
Physical Description
24 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (12mo)
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Advertised in the Columbian centinel, Boston, Oct. 31, 1795.
The calendar pages, eclipse notes, and other astronomical material are identical with those in Fry's almanac of the same title published at Portsmouth, N.H., by Charles Peirce. In the preface to his next almanac, An astronomical diary; or Almanac for 1797 (Portsmouth: C. Peirce), Fry states: I think it prudent here to mention, that somebody has taken the liberty to publish an almanac for the meridian of Boston (for 1796) and prefix my name as author: (the calculations probably are mine; but many other matters very different:) by which both myself and the public are much imposed upon: but I here inform that it was not my act, and beg that the public may not be deceived in future.
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Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 28719).
Reviewed/Cited In
Drake, M. Almanacs, 3550
Evans, C. American bibliography, 28719
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