A diurnal speculum, for the year of our Lord God, 1684 Being the bissextile, or leap-year, with annual and Mon[thly] predictions & progn[o]stications astrologically handled. (Written and design'd for the press in Aug, 1683. but its publication prevented by the printers t[e]merity.) Wherein was fore-told, in D[e]cemb. 1683. the late and unheard of frost; with the events that may probably and suddenly ensue thereon. By Richard Kirkby, student in astrology and physick.
- Title
- A diurnal speculum, for the year of our Lord God, 1684 Being the bissextile, or leap-year, with annual and Mon[thly] predictions & progn[o]stications astrologically handled. (Written and design'd for the press in Aug, 1683. but its publication prevented by the printers t[e]merity.) Wherein was fore-told, in D[e]cemb. 1683. the late and unheard of frost; with the events that may probably and suddenly ensue thereon. By Richard Kirkby, student in astrology and physick.
- Author
- Kirby, Richard, b. 1649.
- Publication
- London :: printed by John Bringhurst, at the sign of the Book and Three Black-Birds, in Leaden-Hall Mutton-Market, (who formerly lived at the Book in Grace-Church-Street),
- 1684.
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- Subject terms
- Almanacs -- Early works to 1800.
- Predictive astrology -- Early works to 1800.
- Weather forecasting -- Early works to 1800.
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"A diurnal speculum, for the year of our Lord God, 1684 Being the bissextile, or leap-year, with annual and Mon[thly] predictions & progn[o]stications astrologically handled. (Written and design'd for the press in Aug, 1683. but its publication prevented by the printers t[e]merity.) Wherein was fore-told, in D[e]cemb. 1683. the late and unheard of frost; with the events that may probably and suddenly ensue thereon. By Richard Kirkby, student in astrology and physick." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69436.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
Contents
- publisher's advertisement
- title page
- The Preface to the Reader.
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Astrological Judgments on the Year,
1684. beginningMarch the 9th. one Hour fifty seven minutes past Noon; at which time theSun touches the first Scruple, or Point of that Equinoctial signAries, the Ascendant ofGreat Britain, &c. -
predictions
- Prognostications on JANUARY.
- Prognostications on FEBRUARY.
- Prognostications on MARCH.
- Prognostications on APRIL.
- Prognostications on MAY.
- Prognostications one JUNE.
- Prognostications on JULY.
- Prognostications on AUGUST.
- Prognostications on SEPTEMBER.
- Prognostications on OCTOBER.
- Prognostications on NOVEMBER.
- Prognostications on DECEMBER.
- publisher's note
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A true Systeme of the Visible World, ex∣plained according to
Copurnicus, De∣cember the11th. 1684. - ADVERTISEMENT.