An introduction to chronology : containing an account of time : also of the most remarkable cycles, epoch's, era's, periods, and moveable feasts : to which is added, a brief account of the several methods proposed for the alteration of the style, the reforming the calendar, and fixing the true time of the celebration of Easter / by James Hodgson, F.R.S. and Master of the Royal Mathematical School.
| Uniform Title: | William D. and Helen M. Chase Collection.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for J. Hinton, at the King's Arms in St Paul's Church-yard,
MDCCXLVII [1747]
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| Series: | William D. and Helen M. Chase Collection.
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| Ownership and Custodial History: |
Inscription in pencil on recto of front free end-paper: "W. D. Chase, Oct 1980"; inscription in Chase's hand on rear paste-down: "Maggs Bros - £18 : Binding (Macomb[?]) - |
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In modern brown buckram; boards and spine tooled in gilt; spine lettered in gilt. |
| Physical Description: | xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 85 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm (octavo) |
| Format: | Book |
| Note: | Includes texts of earlier papers on calendar reform, including a response to John Dee (1582) and a letter from John Wallis to John Blencowe (1698). Below imprint: "Price one shilling and six-pence." Signatures: a-b⁴ A-L⁴ (final leaf blank). Includes press fixures. Woodcut initials; head- and tail-pieces. Errata at foot of leaf L3r. |
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| Call Number: | CE10 .H6 1747 XX |
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English short title catalogue, T111838 |
| Place of Publication: | England -- London. |