Nathaniel Ames was a colonial American physician who published a popular series of annual almanacs. He was the son of Nathaniel Ames first (1677–1736) and the father of Nathaniel and Fisher Ames. The family was descended from William Ames of Bruton, Somerset, England, whose son William emigrated to Massachusetts and settled at Braintree as early as 1640.
The Ames Tavern as drawn in 1891 based on the memory of Dedham's oldest resident
Ames' offending sign, as redrawn in 1888.
An almanac is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects. It includes information like weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, tide tables, and other tabular data often arranged according to the calendar. Celestial figures and various statistics are found in almanacs, such as the rising and setting times of the Sun and Moon, dates of eclipses, hours of high and low tides, and religious festivals. The set of events noted in an almanac may be tailored for a specific group of readers, such as farmers, sailors, or astronomers.
Old Moore's Almanack is an astrological almanac which has been published in Britain since 1697.
The 1st cent. Menologium Rusticum Colotianum, discovered in Rome and now held by the Archeological Museum in Naples
A page from the Almanac for the Hindu year 1871–72
MS. 8932. Medieval folding almanac (15th century)
