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A nineteenth-century print based on Poor Richard's Almanack, showing the author surrounded by twenty-four illustrations of many of his best-known sayings. On December 28, 1732, Benjamin Franklin announced in The Pennsylvania Gazette that he had just printed and published the first edition of The Poor Richard, by Richard Saunders, Philomath. [4]
The cover of the 1793 edition. The first Old Farmer's Almanac, then known as The Farmer's Almanac, was edited by Robert Bailey Thomas, the publication's founder. [6]There were many competing almanacs in the 18th century, but Thomas's book was a success. [6]
Robert Bailey Thomas (April 24, 1766 - May 19, 1846), also spelled Robert Bayley Thomas, was an American who created, and for a long time published, the Old Farmer's Almanac. Thomas was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, served for a time as a schoolteacher and then bookbinder and book seller. In 1792 he began his almanac which he continued to ...
The 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac $8.22 at amazon.com While you’ve probably heard of The Old Farmer’s Almanac , you may not know that it’s a publication that was founded by Robert B. Thomas in ...
The New England Farmer's Almanac (1820s-1830s?) The Maine Farmers' Almanac, printed from 1819 in Hallowell, Maine and later in Augusta, Maine, printed by Goodale, Glazier & Co. and edited by Daniel Robinson and Abel Bowen. Appeared until 1968. The New England Anti-Masonic Almanac, published 1829–1833 in Boston, Massachusetts by John Marsh
Old Farmer's Almanac (1792–present) Schott's Almanac; A Sound Word Almanac (2023) [3] TIME Almanac with Information Please, formerly Information Please Almanac (1947–2013) Wall Street Journal Almanac (1998 [4] and 1999 [5]) Whitaker's Almanack (1868–present) The World Almanac and Book of Facts (1868–1876, 1886–present) Almanaque Abril ...
The Farmers' Almanac. First printed in 1818 by David Young. ... So there is a BIG accuracy difference between a real meteorologist long-range forecast and almanacs," Iven wrote.
The earliest known almanac in this modern sense is the Almanac of Azarqueil written in 1088 by Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Latinized as Arzachel) in Toledo, al-Andalus. The work provided the true daily positions of the sun, moon and planets for four years from 1088 to 1092, as well as many other related tables.