An almanac is an annual publication that is characterized by collecting in it all the most important data or news about a certain matter..
In the almanac it is common to find astronomical data, statistics, and information about the movement of the sun, the moon, eclipses, holidays and outstanding chronologies.
The word has an Arabic origin equivalent to that of the word climate and that precisely has to do with the original purpose for which it was first created and used: in Agriculture to provide information on the climate and the seasons of the year.
He antecedent of the almanac is the greek climate calendar known as parapegma. He Ptolemy astronomer He was the first to make a type like the one mentioned in which a list of climatic changes characteristic of the regular seasons would appear. The first and last appearances of the stars, the constellations of dawn and dusk, solar events such as the solstice, among others.
Meanwhile, in addition to these climatic considerations to favor the work of the farmer, the calendars of yesteryear used to contain some moral and hygiene recommendations for the people.
Then, with the diffusion of the printing press, the almanacs undoubtedly became very widespread publications and required by the public belonging to different social classes, that is, the poor and rich had their almanacs.
Today’s prevalent almanacs have extended their horizons and include statistical and descriptive data that pertain to the entire world.
Topics of interest and historical events are the most abundant content currently in today’s almanacs.
Among the topics most reflected by the almanacs we find the following: geography, medicine, health, business, government, agriculture, demography, religion, media, sports, awards, among others. Also, it is possible to find specialized almanacs such is the case of an almanac on American politics.
On the other hand, it is also designated as an almanac when rregister or catalog of every day of the year, distributed by days, weeks and months, which has astronomical data such as changes in the moon, meteorology and even religious. Juana knows the saints of each day thanks to her almanac.
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