Darkness at noon; or, The great solar eclipse, of the 16th of June, 1806
Subtitle: described and represented in every particular. : Containing, also, an explanation of eclipses in general, and the causes on which they depend. : Written in a style, familiar and easy, and adapted to every capacity. : [Four lines of verse]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 10255
Publisher: Boston printed--New-York, reprinted.
Published: 1806
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Solar eclipses
Notes: The title pages of the Boston editions (Shaw & Shoemaker 10253 and 10254) name the author as "an inhabitant of Boston." The calculations of the eclipse and some passages concerning it correspond to those in the extensive discussion of the eclipse in Poor Richard's genuine New-England almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1806, printed by Andrew Newell, Boston, [1805]. The two subsequent almanacs in Newell's series, for 1807 and 1808, also carry the phrase "Calculated by an inhabitant of Boston" on their title pages. Newell's obituary in the Columbian centinel, Boston, Feb. 10, 1808, describes him as "A young man possessing a philosophical, active, and vigorous mind ... He furnished the best and most accurate account of the last great solar eclipse."

Shaw & Shoemaker 10255

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