Download or read book The Quebec Almanack, and British American Royal Kalendar, for the Year 1828 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Quebec Almanack, and British American Royal Kalendar, for the Year 1828: Being Leap Year Many perfons, underfianding that the mean time be tween one new Moon and another is 29 days, hours, 44 minutes and' a fraction, imagine that, to find me full or quazters of the Moon, they have only to add a half or fourth part of that time; and when they do not find the changes marked in the Calendar to cor refpond with this method, they impute It. To miflake in the calculation of thofe changes. {it IS therefore, neceffary to put them in mind, that the great Inequa lityof the Moon's motions renders the above rule ex gtremely inaccurate, (0 that nineteen times in twenty, iittmufi fail in giving the true conjunction oreharge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.