| His fascination with the event led him to discover for himself when eclipses might occur using only an almanac and a book on geography. |
| Regardless of whether you choose to use the sight reduction tables or prefer the haversine formula you will require a nautical almanac. |
| Further tests convinced him that the Nubian had not been put up to this by someone who could read the almanac. |
| He took two steps over to the almanac calendar hanging next to the apothecary's chest, and peered at it thoughtfully. |
| It was another Johannes, also a German, who in 1472 became the first person to print an astronomical almanac. |
| This was in the year 1732, and the following year Franklin had no philomath, as such people were called, to prepare his almanac. |
