"Massachusetts, preceded Banneker's birth by nearly a century. Nathaniel Ames issued his ""Astronomical Diary and Almanack"" in Massachusetts in 1725 and annually after c.1732. James Franklin published ""The Rhode Island Almanack"" by ""Poor Robin"" for each year from 1728 to 1735. James' brother, Benjamin Franklin, published his annual ""Poor Richard's Almanack"" in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1732 to 1758, more than thirty years before Banneker wrote his own first almanac in 1791. A decade before printers published Banneker's first almanac, Andrew Ellicott began to publish a series of almanacs, ""The United States Almanack"", the earliest known copy of which bears the"
"popular London almanac which continued to be published throughout the eighteenth century. Franklin created the Poor Richard persona based in part on Jonathan Swift's pseudonymous character, ""Isaac Bickerstaff"". In a series of three letters in 1708 and 1709, known as the Bickerstaff papers, ""Bickerstaff"" predicted the imminent death of astrologer and almanac maker John Partridge. Franklin's Poor Richard, like Bickerstaff, claimed to be a philomath and astrologer and, like Bickerstaff, predicted the deaths of actual astrologers who wrote traditional almanacs. In the early editions of ""Poor Richard's Almanack"", predicting and falsely reporting the deaths of these astrologers—much to their dismay—was"
"place. It observes the continued use of cucking stools in 1746. Other works purporting to be by 'Poor Robin' and attributed to Winstanley or his imitators are: In the 18th century editors included Thomas Peat. Poor Robin Poor Robin was an English 17th and 18th-century satirical almanac series, appearing as Poor Robin's Almanack from 1663. Other similar writings by the pseudonymous Poor Robin were published later, in America and into the 19th century. The earliest volume published under the pseudonym of 'Poor Robin' was an almanac calculated from the meridian of Saffron Walden, which is said to have been originally"
"Titan Leeds Titan Leeds (1699–1738) was an 18th-century American almanac publisher. A ""good friend and fellow student"" of Benjamin Franklin's, he is best known through Franklin's mentions of him in the rival publication ""Poor Richard's Almanack"". Franklin used the first edition of his almanac to predict Leeds's death (Oct. 17, 1733, 3:29 P.M., at the very instant of the conjunction of the Sun and Mercury), and encouraged his readers to buy next year's edition of ""Poor Richard's Almanac"" to see if Franklin was right. When the date of Leeds' supposed passing had come and gone, Franklin published Leeds' obituary anyway."
"Poor Robin Poor Robin was an English 17th and 18th-century satirical almanac series, appearing as Poor Robin's Almanack from 1663. Other similar writings by the pseudonymous Poor Robin were published later, in America and into the 19th century. The earliest volume published under the pseudonym of 'Poor Robin' was an almanac calculated from the meridian of Saffron Walden, which is said to have been originally issued in 1661 or 1662. It was taken over by the Stationers' Company, and was continued annually by various hands until 1776. The identity of its original author has been disputed, but is assigned as"
"almanacs that parodied these horoscopes in its 1664 issue, saying ""This month we may expect to hear of the Death of some Man, Woman, or Child, either in Kent or Christendom."" Other noteworthy comic almanacs include those published from 1687-1702 by John Tully of Saybrook, Connecticut. The most important early American almanacs were made from 1726-1775 by Nathaniel Ames of Dedham, Massachusetts. A few years later James Franklin began publishing the Rhode-Island Almanack beginning in 1728. Five years later his brother Benjamin Franklin began publishing ""Poor Richard's Almanack"" from 1733-1758. Benjamin Banneker, a free African American, composed a series of"
"Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (; ; 14 September 17696 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. Humboldt's advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in the Americas, exploring and describing it for the first time from a modern scientific point"
"When challenged by the very much alive Leeds, Franklin insisted that Leeds had in fact died, but that he was being impersonated by an inferior publisher. When Leeds actually died in 1738 Benjamin Franklin publicly commended the impostors for ending their charade. Titan Leeds Titan Leeds (1699–1738) was an 18th-century American almanac publisher. A ""good friend and fellow student"" of Benjamin Franklin's, he is best known through Franklin's mentions of him in the rival publication ""Poor Richard's Almanack"". Franklin used the first edition of his almanac to predict Leeds's death (Oct. 17, 1733, 3:29 P.M., at the very instant of"
"folio and quarto volumes, including: Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (; ; 14 September 17696 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. Humboldt's advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement laid the foundation for modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in the Americas, exploring and describing it for the first time"
"Richard Price Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, nonconformist preacher and mathematician. He was also a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He was well-connected and fostered communication between a large number of people, including several of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Price spent most of his adult life as minister of Newington Green Unitarian Church, on the outskirts of London. He also wrote on issues of demography and finance, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society. Richard Price was the"
"sealed lead coffin in her parlour. Eventually the Coroner forced a burial, in early January 1825. His cousin was very defensive of him, and recorded that he left manuscripts of unpublished works, including an autobiography, now all lost. For ""Rees's Cyclopædia"" he contributed articles on agriculture and meteorology. There are other articles classified as Rural Economy and also Horticulture that he may well have written. He also contributed to ""The English Encyclopaedia"", 1802 Richard Watson Dickson Richard Watson Dickson (9 November 1759 – 17 September 1824) was a physician and agriculturalist. Dickson was born 9 November 1759 at Warton, Carnforth,"
"explain the obvious and he seldom admits his own assumptions [2] . A misconception of Theodosius is that he wrote s commentary on the chapter of Theudas and Skeptical Cahpters [3]. This was not the Theodosius of Bithynia but rather a sceptic philosopher of the second century AD with the same name who wrote both works [4]. By Boris A. Rosenfeld By Boris A. Rosenfeld By Boris A. Rosenfeld Paul Kunitzsch, Richard Lorch Paul Kunitzsch, Richard Lorch Theodosius of Bithynia Theodosius of Bithynia (; c. 160 BC – c. 100 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician who wrote the"
"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. In British America, William Pierce of Harvard College published the first American almanac entitled, ""An Almanac for New England for the year 1639"" Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard became the first center for the annual publication of almanacs with various editors including Samuel Danforth, Oakes, Cheever, Chauncey, Dudley, Foster, et alia. An almanac maker going under the pseudonym of Poor Richard, Knight of the Burnt Island began to publish ""Poor Robin's Almanack"" one of the first comic"
"Royal Navy officer and explorer; Gideon Mantell (1790-1852), English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist; Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885), French zoologist; Roderick Murchison (1792-1871), British geologist; Richard Owen (1804-1892), English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist; Edward Parry (1790-1855), Royal Navy officer was an English rear-admiral and Arctic explorer; Joseph Barclay Pentland (1797-1873), Irish geographer, natural scientist, and traveller; John Phillips (1800-1874), English geologist; David Ricardo (1772-1823), British political economist; Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer; James Ross (1800-1862), Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer; John Ruskin (1819-1900), English art critic and polymath; Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), British priest and geologist;"
"Deeds. His chief importance is as founder and editor of his almanacs, the publishing of which his son, Nathaniel third (a Harvard graduate and physician), continued for ten years after his father's death. The father issued the first number in 1725, three years before James Franklin started his in Rhode Island and eight years before Benjamin Franklin inaugurated ""Poor Richard's Almanack"". Ames must have been a household word throughout New England, for it is said that the circulation of his almanac, with its sharp-tongued commentary on Massachusetts politics, religion, and social life ran to 60,000 copies. Moses Coit Tyler considered"
"Richard's Poor Almanac Richard's Poor Almanac is a cartoon series by Richard Thompson which appeared weekly (usually on Saturdays) in ""The Washington Post"" Style section. It ran from 1997 to 2016. The ""Richard's Poor Almanac"" cartoon published the week of George W. Bush's first inauguration was Thompson's mock inaugural poem, ""Make the Pie Higher,"" composed of some of Bush's more incoherent quotations. When ""Make the Pie Higher"" was leaked onto the Internet, it spread rapidly and was eventually dissected and analyzed on Snopes, which did a lengthy review of its origins. The poem has been set to music multiple times"
"1758, the original character was even more distant from the practical advice and proverbs of the almanac, which Franklin presented as coming from ""Father Abraham,"" who in turn got his sayings from Poor Richard. Franklin published the first ""Poor Richard's Almanack"" on December 28, 1732, and continued to publish new editions for 25 years, bringing him much economic success and popularity. The almanack sold as many as 10,000 copies a year. In 1735, upon the death of Franklin's brother, James, Franklin sent 500 copies of ""Poor Richard's"" to his widow for free, so that she could make money selling them."
"it is very improbable that the almanacs, which date from 1662, were devised by a boy of fifteen; and apart from the resemblance between the names of Robin and Robert, there is no ground for associating Robert Winstanley with the 'Poor Robin' literature. On the other hand, William Winstanley is known to have assumed in other works than the almanac the pseudonym of ""Poor Robin"", and the verse with which the early issues of ""Poor Robin's Almanacs"" are interspersed renders it probable on internal grounds that he was the inventor of that series. In 1667 a portrait of William Winstanley"
"Cornbury about this time. Considering Leeds as a traitor for aiding the Crown and rejecting Quaker beliefs, the Quaker Burlington Meeting of southern New Jersey subsequently dismissed Leeds as ""evil"". During 1716, Daniel Leeds' son, Titan Leeds, inherited his father's almanac business, which continued to use astrological content and eventually competed with Benjamin Franklin's popular ""Poor Richard's Almanac"". The competition between the two men intensified when, during 1733, Franklin satirically used astrology in his almanac to predict Titan Leeds' death on October of that same year. Though Franklin's prediction was intended as a joke at his competitor's expense and a"
"Richard Arkwright (1781–1832) Richard Arkwright (30 September 1781 – 28 March 1832) was an English politician. He was the oldest son of Richard Arkwright (died 1843) of Willersley Castle, Derbyshire, and grandson of the entrepreneur Sir Richard Arkwright (1732–1792), whose invention of the spinning frame and other industrial innovations made him very wealthy. Young Richard was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He and his five brothers were endowed as landed gentry by their father, who gave Richard £30,000 on his marriage in 1803 (equivalent to £ in 2019). He managed his father's estates at Normanton Turville (near"
"Life of Sir William Petty 1623 - 1687 The Life of Sir William Petty 1623-1687 is a book, written by Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, and published in 1895. It is a biography of Sir William Petty, the 17th-century scientist, known for his inventions, his charting of large parts of Ireland, in the Down Survey, and his publications on many different topics, like ""political arithmetic"" and political economy. 335 p. Fitzmaurice founded his biography of Sir William Petty largely on the manuscripts in the so-called 'Bowood' papers. The papers originally belonging to Sir William Petty passed to his grandson, John Petty, 1st"
"wit"", and as such his ""Itinerareum"" is now seen as a very valuable tool for the study of Eighteenth century colonial history. Alexander Hamilton (Maryland doctor) Dr. Alexander Hamilton (September 26, 1712 – May 11, 1756) was a Scottish-born doctor and writer who lived and worked in Annapolis in 18th-century colonial Maryland. Historian Leo Lemay says his 1744 travel diary ""Gentleman's Progress: The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton"" is ""the best single portrait of men and manners, of rural and urban life, of the wide range of society and scenery in colonial America."" His diary covered Maryland to Maine; and"
"Richard Norwood Richard Norwood (1590? – 1675) was an English mathematician, diver, and surveyor. He has been called ""Bermuda’s outstanding genius of the seventeenth century"". Born about 1590, he was in 1616 sent out by the Somers Isles Company to survey the islands of Bermuda (also known as the Somers Isles), then newly settled. He was later accused of collusion with the governor, and that, after assigning the shares to all the settlers, eight shares of the best land remained over, for the personal advantage of himself and the governor. His map was published in London in 1622. In 1623,"
"Richard James Morrison Richard James Morrison (15 June 1795 – 5 April 1874) was an English astrologer, commonly known by his pseudonym Zadkiel. Morrison served in the Royal Navy, but resigned with the rank of lieutenant in 1829. He then devoted himself to the study of astrology, and in 1831 issued ""The Herald of Astrology"", subsequently known as ""Zadkiel's Almanac"". In this annual pamphlet Morrison, over the signature ""Zadkiel Tao-Sze"", published predictions of the chief events of the coming year. His other works include the books: In 1863 Morrison brought a libel action against Admiral Sir Edward Belcher, who had"
"Polydore Vergil Polidoro Virgili, commonly Latinised as Polydorus Vergilius, or anglicised as Polydore Vergil (or Virgil), and often known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino (""c."" 1470 – 18 April 1555) was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent most of his life in England. He is particularly remembered for his works the ""Proverbiorum libellus"" (1498), a collection of Latin proverbs; ""De inventoribus rerum"" (1499), a history of discoveries and origins; and the ""Anglica Historia"" (drafted by 1513; printed 1534), an influential history of England. He has been dubbed the ""Father of English History"". Vergil is sometimes referred"
"Henry Thomas Buckle Henry Thomas Buckle (24 November 1821 – 29 May 1862) was an English historian, the author of an unfinished ""History of Civilization"", and a strong amateur chess player. He is sometimes called ""the Father of Scientific History"". Buckle, the son of Thomas Henry Buckle (1779–1840), a wealthy London merchant and shipowner, and his wife, Jane Middleton (d. 1859) of Yorkshire was born at Lee in London (Kent County) on November 24, 1821. He had two sisters. His father died in January 1840. As a boy, Buckle's ""delicate health"" rendered him unsuited for the usual formal education or"
"of Congress was published by Zechariah Brigden in Cambridge in 1659. Harvard College became the first center for the annual publication of almanacs with various editors including Samuel Danforth, Oakes, Cheever, Chauncey, Dudley, Foster, et alia. An almanac maker going under the pseudonym of Poor Richard, Knight of the Burnt Island began to publish ""Poor Robin's Almanack"" one of the first comic almanacs that parodied these horoscopes in its 1664 issue, saying ""This month we may expect to hear of the Death of some Man, Woman, or Child, either in Kent or Christendom."" Other noteworthy comic almanacs include those published"
"Mythology and commemorations of Benjamin Banneker According to accounts that began to appear during the 1960s or earlier, a substantial mythology has exaggerated the accomplishments of Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806), who was a free African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist, and farmer. A large number of such questionable reports have developed during the two centuries that have elapsed since he lived. Several such urban legends describe Banneker's alleged activities in the Washington, D.C. area around the time that he assisted Andrew Ellicott in the federal district boundary survey. Others involve his clock, his almanacs and his journals. Although parts of African-American"
"as ""The Gentleman Pirate"", noting at the time that ""the Spaniards had a monopoly on its production"". In the 18th century, the Italian professor of medicine Ramazzini said that the introduction of Peruvian bark would be of the same importance to medicine that the discovery of gunpowder was to the art of war, an opinion endorsed by contemporary writers on the history of medicine. The value of Jesuit's bark, and the controversy surrounding it, were both recognized by Benjamin Franklin, who wittily commented upon it in his Poor Richard's Almanac for October, 1749, telling the story of Robert Talbot's use"
"Franklin insisted that loyalists who had borne arms against the United States would be excluded from this plea (that they be given a general pardon). He was undoubtedly thinking of William Franklin."" In 1733, Franklin began to publish the noted ""Poor Richard's Almanack"" (with content both original and borrowed) under the pseudonym Richard Saunders, on which much of his popular reputation is based. Franklin frequently wrote under pseudonyms. Although it was no secret that Franklin was the author, his Richard Saunders character repeatedly denied it. ""Poor Richard's Proverbs"", adages from this almanac, such as ""A penny saved is twopence dear"""
"Richard Lovell Edgeworth Richard Lovell Edgeworth (31 May 1744 – 13 June 1817) was an Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor. Edgeworth was born in Pierrepont Street, Bath, England, great-grandson of Sir Salathiel Lovell through his granddaughter, Jane Lovell. A Trinity College, Dublin and Corpus Christi, Oxford alumnus, he is credited for creating, among other inventions, a machine to measure the size of a plot of land. He also made strides in the developing educational methods. He anticipated the caterpillar track with an invention that he played around with for forty years but that he never successfully developed. He described it"
"publication's founder. There were many competing almanacs in the 18th century, but Thomas's upstart was a success. In its second year, distribution tripled to 9,000. The initial cost of the book was six pence (about four cents). To calculate the ""Almanac""s weather predictions, Thomas studied solar activity, astronomy cycles and weather patterns and used his research to develop a secret forecasting formula, which is still in use today. Other than the ""Almanac""s prognosticators, few people have seen the formula. It is kept in a black tin box at the ""Almanac"" offices in Dublin, New Hampshire. Thomas also started drilling a"
"of what was said to be a cold. Collections of Bagehot's literary, political, and economic essays were published after his death. Their subjects ranged from Shakespeare and Disraeli to the price of silver. In honour of his contributions, ""The Economist""'s weekly commentary on current affairs in the UK is entitled ""Bagehot"". Every year, the British Political Studies Association awards the Walter Bagehot Prize for the best dissertation in the field of government and public administration. Minor planet 2901 Bagehot discovered by Luboš Kohoutek is named in his honor. Walter Bagehot Walter Bagehot ( ; 3 February 1826 – 24 March"