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Identifier: vermontyearboo18541861ches (find matches)
Title: Vermont year book
Year: 1818 (1810s)
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Subjects: Vermont Vermont Almanacs, American
Publisher: Chester, Vt. (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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CATALOGUES, BLANKS, Bill Heads, Circulars, Cards, Posters, and all kinds of PLAIN AND FANCY PRINTING, CV^^EXECUTED PROMPTLY AT._^<3 WALTONS STEAM POWER PKINTING OFFICE, state Street, Montpelier, Vt, (J;^ Orders for work done in the cities.—Emboss- ed, Gilt, Letter-Press and Copper Plate Printing; such as Cards of Address, VVeddinor Cards, Visitingf Cards, &.C., executed in the hig-hest style of the art and at city prices, through one of the most celebrated Printing Establishmhnts. Terms Cash, at reasonable Prices. Address, E. P. WALTON Jr., Montpelier, Vermont. ■ . —■--- -———- No. • • XXXVII~i _ ! 2_ ! . i wALTOje? •■. ■VERMONT REGISTER. fn .AND •^ , * . FAEMER.S ALMANAC 1 8 3fi;: Calculated for the meridian of Montpolier, lat. 41 17 X., long. 4 25E. from the Capitol at Washington. ASTRONOMICAL OALCULATIOyS BT ZADOCK THOMPSON, A. M. MONTPELIER: Published and printed by E. IV Walton & Son. jALMANAC, V o) -z) ^^\ 8; 9;I0 V s I22j23;24s^!*? ,29,30131
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29130 f-. i Explaiialioiis of tlic Astroiioniicai Bepartmeut. Py due attention to the following explanations, all the Astronomical (^alculaiions in this work will bw reiidily understood.Time is regarded either -s mean or appaient. A viean dny is the average )t-iiglh of ihe days in the year, and con- :sists of 24 hours, as measured by a clock which runs unifonuly. and I wliich measures 3G5 times *24 hours in 3<.5 natural days. I I An apparent day is tlie time from tjie suns leaving the meridian on :I one day, till lis arrival on the meridian on the nest day: and ihis !time is not always the same, being sometimes more and someliioea ;: less than 24 hours. ; i Mean time, tlun, is that shown by a \^ ell regulated clock ; and ap- \I parent time is that shown by a correct sun-dial ; the ditlerenco be- ij tween these is called the egautiun of time. j The equaion of time depends upon two causes, the obliquity of the ; ecliptic to the equator, and the eccentiicity of the eaiths orbit; Ijoih

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