Required the Cycle of the Sun, Golden Number, & Indiction for the year 1832.

21-ycle of the Sun 9 Golden Number 5-Indiction.

To find on what day Easter will happen.

It was ordered by the Nicene Council, that Easter Sunday, should be kept on the first Sunday after the 1st full Moon which happened upon,or after the twentyfirst day of March, the day on which they thought the Vernal Equinox happened, though this was a mistake, for the vernal equinox that year fell on the 20th of March; but yet, the full Moon which fell on, or next after the twenty-first of March, they called the Paschal full Moon; and by the introduction of the Gregorian, or New Style, the equinox will now always happen on the twentieth, or twenty-first of March and if the full Moon happen on a Sunday, Easter Day is to be the next Sunday after. Therefore, find the time of the next full Moon after the 21st. of March, and the following Sunday is Easter.

of the week, the Sun's place to the same signs and degrees of the ecliptic, on the same months and days, so as not to differ one degree in an hundred years, and the leap years begin the same course over again, with respect to the days of the week, on which the days of the months fall.

The Cycle of the Moon, (commonly called the Golden Number,) is a revolution of 19 years, in which the conjunctions, oppositions, and other aspects of the Moon, are within an hour and a half, of being the same as they were, on the same days of the months 19 years before. The indiction is a revolution of 15 years, used only by the ROMANS, for indicating the times of certain payments made by the subjects of the REPUBLIC: It was established by CONSTANTINE, A. D. 312.

1840 Sunday
1841 Monday,
1842 Tuesday,
1843 Wednesday,
1844 Friday,
1845 Saturday,
1846 Sunday,
On what day of the week will the first day of January fall in 1840. 1847 Monday,
Observe the day of the week annexed to the year in the outer col- 1848 Wednesday,t
umn, then in the table under the given month, in the upper row of fig- 1849 Thursday,
ures yon will find the day of the month on which that day falls. Ac-1850 Friday,
cording to this direction, I find that in the year 1840 (being leap year) 1851 Saturday,
that the 5th day of January is on Sunday, and consequently the year
1852 Monday
1840 commences on Wednesday.
1853 Tuesday,
1854 Wednesday,
1855 Thursday,
1856 Saturday,

NOTE-In leap years, January and February must be taken in the columns marked thus. Leap years are marked in the outer columns thus †,

The years 2000, 2400,2800 and every 400th year following are leap years.

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TABULAR VIEW OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.

Names Mean diam Mean distan- The cor- Mean ap- | Mean apparent
ces from the rect mean parent di-diameter as seen
Sun in round distances, ameters as from the Sun.

of the

Planets.

'eters in
Miles.

TABULAR VIEW OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.

Names of Densi- | Diurnal rotations Propor-Inclinations Inclinations the planets ties that around their own

of water
being 1,

axis.

tional of Axis to of orbits to quanti-their orbits. the ecliptic ties of in 1780. matter.

ERRATA.

69th page, 3d line, read curvilinear instead of curvilineal.

112th page, 16th line, read lowest instead of least. 145th page, 2d line, read ten instead of sixteen. 153d page, last line after shadow, read when the Moon passes by the node, she takes, &c.

From page 224, to page 232, at the head of the pages, read delineation instead of declination.

247th page, 7th line, read emitted instead of remitted 256th page, 1st line, read fall instead of full.

Besides the above, there are a few Typographical Errors, which, however, are only the omission of a letter, and do not alter the sense.