[Strong, Nehemiah]:

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AN ASTRONOMICAL DIARY, KALENDER, OR ALMANACK, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1789....By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. A well-kept Hartford Bickerstaff almanac from the last year of the Confederation period. Although Evans attributes this almanac to Benjamin West of Providence, the Hartford Bickerstaffs from 1785 and on are generally attributed to Rev. Nehemiah Strong, Yale's first professor of Mathematics and Natural Science. Strong, fed up with rumors attributing Bickerstaff almanacs to himself and dismissive of their quality, seems to have decided to simply take the name for his own in Hartford. Along with the usual calendars and notices, including a small woodcut of "Mercury wholly on the Face of the Sun", are several bits of prose including "The Beer-Barrel", "On Laziness", and "On ugliness." The titlepage bears the contemporary signature of one Enoch Peirce, a native of Massachusetts who followed his parents and most of his family to Mansfield, Connecticut in the 1730s.

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