An Almanack of the coelestiall motions, aspects and eclipses, &c. for the year of our Lord God, MDCXCIV
Subtitle: ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston in N.E. 69. deg. 20. min. to the westward of London, & 42. deg. 30 min. north latitude, but may indifferently serve the most part of New-England
By: By Philo-Mathemat
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 687
Publisher: Printed by B. Green, for Samuel Phillips, near the south-east end of the Exchange, by the Rose & Crown Tavern.
Published: 1693
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Notes: At head of title: 1694.

Attributed to William Brattle by C.L. Nichols. Cf. his "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 46. Nichols makes no attempt to substantiate the attribution, and is probably following Evans, who tentatively gives Brattle as the author. Brattle's only other known almanac was published in 1682, with his name on the title page.

It seems more probable that the present almanac is by Christian Lodowick, or Ludwig, who published one under his own name for the following year, 1685. The latter has the same imprint, gives the same statement of meridian on the title page, and has the same material in the same arrangement on the calendar pages (but with medical prescriptions appended at the foot).

Brattle's 1682 calendar pages and meridian statement differ considerably; and there is no explanation of the 12-year space between the two almanacs, nor of the latter one being unsigned.

Almanac authors sometimes published their first work anonymously to test its acceptance, and the present almanac is thus susceptible to explanation as Lodowick's initial effort.

Signatures: [A]⁸.

Evans 687

Wing (2nd ed.) A1377

Drake, M. Almanacs, 2894