THE

Gentleman's Diary,

OR THE

MATHEMATICAL REPOSITORY; An ALMANACK For the YEAR of our LORD 1796:

BEING

BISSEXTILE, OR LEAP YEAR. Containing many useful and entertaining Particulars, peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the delightful Study and Practice of the MATHEMATICKS.

The Fifty-fixth ALMANACK published of this Kind; and the Forty-fourth of the NEW-STYLE in ENGLand.

With wife Intent

The Hand of Nature on peculiar Minds
Imprints a different Bias, and to each
Decrees its Province in the common Toil.
To fome the taught the Fabrick of the Sphere,
The changeful Moon, the Circuit of the Stars,
The golden Zones of Heaven: to fome she gaves
To weigh the Moment of eternal Things,
Of Time, and Space, and Fate's unbroken Chain
And Will's quick Impulse.

LONDON:

AKENE

17396

Printed for the Company of STATIONERS;

And Sold by ROBERT HORSFIELD, at their Hall in
LUDGATE-STREET. 1796.

[Price Eleven Pence ftitched.]

This Year there will be four ECLIPSES, three of the Sun, and one of the Moon, but neither of them vifible in Great-Britain.

1. January 10th, the fun will be eclipfed at 6 H. 5 M. in the morning, in longitude 9 figns 19° 50', and central on the meridian at 6 H. 5 M. in 88° 2 East, and latitude 21° South. D's lat. o North.

2. July 4th at night, the fun will be eclipfed. Conjunction at II H. M. in long. 3 figns 13° 31′, )'s lat. 14 North. Eclipfe central on the meridian at 10 H. 59 M. P. M. long. 88°Eaft. lat. 36° N.

3." December 14th, the moon will be eclipfed in the afternoon before the rifes here. Beginning 1 H: 8 Min, eclip. opp. 2. 13. midd. 2 h. 21, end 3 h. 33

4. December 29th, in the morning, the fun will be eclipsed. Conjunction 5 h. 5 m. in long. 9 S. 8° 22′, D's lat. 36' S. Eclipfe central on the meridian at 5 h. 54 m. in long. 91° Eaft; and lat. 65° South.

Venus this year will be an evening ftar till the 5th day of Auguft, and after that a morning ftar to the year's end.

Jupiter will be an evening ftar til 8th day of February, then a morning ftar to the 30th day of Auguft; after that again an evening ftar to the end of the year.

The Georgian planet will be in oppofition to the fun, February 24, at 9 at night, and due fouth about midnight; declination 10° 2' N. The weather column this year is that obferved in the South part of the county of Nottingham during the year 1794.

The ingenious Contributors are again thanked for their kind affiftance and encouragement; they are defired to confine their letters to the fubjects which they meet with in this Diary only, and not to mix with them things that they wish to have appear in another place, as the Author has no part or bufinefs in any fimilar publication.

An ingenious Enigma, by Mr. Philip Norris of Liverpool, was obliged to be omitted last year on account of its length; it would however have been inferted this year, had not fome apprehenfions been entertained, left it should appear at the fame time in another place. And for like reafons fome others alfo are omitted. Several ingenious critical and philofophical questions have been obliged to be omitted this year for want of room: such of them as feem to admit of farisfactory anfwers will not be forgotten in their turn, as opportunity offers; but gentlemen are hereby again reminded, that the answers to all thefe kind of queftions are required to be fent along with them otherwife they need not expect to see them published.

THENA new Anigmas and Rebufes muft alfo have their anfwere fent POEM along with them. As to the Mathematical Quations, the Authog makes it a rule to print home but fuch as he thinks he can do himself