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The Royal German Sausage; or, the Adelaide aerial ship
No full textSatirical cartoon representing anti-German sentiment in England in the early 1800s. A group of Germans in a dirigible shaped like a sausage are remarking on their unwelcomeness in England, and returning to Germany for reinforcements in case of conflict in England.For more information about this item, visit https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/54
The N. England kalendar, 1704. Or An almanack for the year of our Lord, 1704 [electronic resource] : ... Calculated for and fitted to the meridian of Boston in N.E. whose lat. is 42. g. 25. m. north, but may well serve any part of New-England ... By a lover of astronomy. With allowance.
No full textIn this preface, the author continues his controversy with Samuel Clough, criticizing him and his New-England almanack for 1703 by name. Clough, in his 1704 almanac, replied in kind.Signatures: [A]p8sBristol,Shipton & Mooney,Drake, M. Almanacs,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library
Ephemeris expeditionis Norreysij & Draki in Lusitaniam.
No full text"First edition. One of the most important original sources for the history of the Drake-Norris attack upon Spain and Portugal in 1589 ... It is a diary of the events of that expedition, from March 15 to July 3."--H.P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 200, no. 25.Includes a prefatory letter purporting to be from O.H. to Michael Isselt of Amersfort and a postscript also addressing Isselt. O.H. calls the anonymous author a participant in the expedition.Signatures: A♯(-A1) B-D♯ E♯(-E4).STC (2nd ed.) 18653Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 2
Citizen's and farmer's almanac, for the year 1801 [electronic resource] : ... Containing, (besides the astronomical calculations by Joshua Sharp,) the death and character of G. Washington.
No full textTitle vignette: portrait of Washington. The Anatomy is the only other illustration.Bookseller's advertisement, p. [37-40].VERIFY TITLE TRANSCRIPTIONEvans,Drake, M. Almanacs,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Library of Congress
The New-England diary, or Almanack for the year of our Lord 1725. ... [electronic resource] : By a native of New England.
No full textAt head of title: MDCCXXV.Two versions of this almanac were issued over the same pen-name and thus allegedly by the same author, the other being printed at Boston by B. Green. Franklin's edition, unlike Green's, is not signed by Bowen, and is said to be a pirated almanac. Cf. Nichols, Charles L. "Note on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proc. Amer. Antiq. Soc., n.s. 22 (1912): 54. The calculations on the calendar pages of the two issues are basically identical. The notes on the calendar pages largely differ, particularly in that the Franklin issue omits the abundant planetary and zodiacal information found in the issue by Green, and includes church days, which Green's edition lacks. The respective eclipse notes are versions of each other.Green's version includes also several pages of astronomical matter, animadversions on the almanac author Nathaniel Whittemore, and a table of roads. None of these appears in the Franklin edition, which contains instead two pages entitled "The principal holy-days in the year explain'd." - Later almanac authors occasionally issued similarly varying editions by different publishers, and possibly the two present versions are legitimate and intended for different audiences.Advertised in the New-England courant, Boston, Nov. 16/23, 1724.Signatures: [A]. - 500 NOTE ABRIDGED FROM NOTE IN AAS CARD CATALOGUEBristol,Shipton & Mooney,Drake, M. Almanacs,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library
Father Hutchins revived; being an almanac and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord 1794 ... [electronic resource] : By Father Abraham Hutchins, mathematician.
No full text"Abraham Hutchins" is a pseudonym intended to exploit the popular reputation of the New York state calculator John Nathan Hutchins.Comparison with The New England farmer's almanack for 1794 by Samuel Stearns (Springfield, Mass.) indicates that Stearns was probably the calculator of "Father Hutchins" for this year. The eclipse predictions are partly identical in their wording and almost entirely so in their calculations. Identical times are given for the moon's phases. The only astronomical notes in the calendar pages of The New England farmer are for the rising, southing, and setting of the "7 stars" or Pleiades, and these are duplicated here as to day and time. The other calculations vary because of the difference in meridian. Eclipses, lunar phases, and calendar notes are the usual points of identity in early almanacs calculated by the same author for separate regions.Two states of gathering A noted. In one, the note "*s denotes the sun will be too slow .." appears at the foot of p. [7]; and the note "Venus will be morning star .." on p. [6]. In the other state, the Venus note appears at the foot of p. [7] while the note "*sl denotes the sun .." appears under the heading "Explanation of the calendar pages" on p. [7].The Anatomy is the only illustration.Signatures: A-Cp6sEvans,Evans,Drake, M. Almanacs,Drake, M. Almanacs,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library
Firth Ballad
No full textThe miner's song. Down among'st the coals: What I overheard my poor old mother sa
ASCA X-ray spectra of the active single stars β Ceti and π<SUP>1</SUP> Ursae Majoris
No full textWe present X-ray spectra obtained by ASCA of two single, active stars, the G dwarf π1 UMa, and the G9/K0 giant βCet. The spectra of both stars require the presence of at least two plasma components with different temperatures, 0.3-0.4 keV and ~0.7 keV, in order for acceptable fits to be obtained. The spectral resolving power and signal-to-noise ratio of the solid state imaging spectrometer (SIS) spectra allow us to formally constrain the coronal abundances of a number of elements. In β Cet, we find Mg to be overabundant, while other elements such as O, Ne, and N are underabundant, relative to the solar photospheric values. From the lower signal-to-noise ratio SIS spectrum of π1 UMa, we find evidence for underabundances of O, Ne, and Fe. These results are discussed in the context of the present understanding of elemental abundances in solar and stellar coronae
A survey of nurses' knowledge of sleep and its role in patient recovery in a hospital context
No full textThe aim of this study was to determine professional nurses’ knowledge of sleep and the role of sleep in patient recovery, among 83 professional nurses in a private hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. The nurses in this study were mainly found to have a limited knowledge of sleep and the role of sleep in patient recovery in a hospital context
