Wilson, James, Esq., Philomath ‘A New and Complete Set of Astrological Tables, for Finding the Declination, Right Ascension, Ascensional Difference, & Crepusculine Arcs, with a Table of Ascensional Differences Suited to the Polar Elevation of London, 51 º32’ North, for finding the Semiarcs and Oblique Ascension for that Latitude, and a New Table of Houses, for the Same Latitude, Calculated by Oblique Ascension for the Purpose of Erecting Figures, Where the East and West Angles are Corrected Conformably to the Present Ecliptical Difference. The whole adapted to the Ecliptical Obliquity of 23º 28’, and requisite for bringing up Directions, by computing the Oblique Ascension or Descension, Semiarcs, Horary Time, &c. of Any Point in the Heavens’ Printed for William Hughes, Islington Green, and sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, and by all other Booksellers, London, 1820.

Part of a larger volume in old decoratively blind-stamped cloth with gilt-stamped spine (wear to extremities of spine and lower outer corners of boards; moderate wear to upper outer corners). [1 leaf] + [pp. iii-xii] + [pp. 1-76 of tables]

About this Book Scan

Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing of the 1820 first edition.

James Wilson’s New and Complete Set of Astrological Tables was released the year after his Complete Dictionary of Astrology, and is sometimes found bound up with it in a single volume. It is perhaps most notable for the contents of its introduction today.