Darkness at noon; or, The great solar eclipse, of the 16th of June, 1806 : described and represented in every particular. : Containing, also, a general explanation of eclipses, and the causes on which they depend. / By an inhabitant of Boston. ; ; [Four lines of verse].
| Author/creator | Newell, Andrew |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Second edition. |
| Publication Info | Boston : Published by D. Carlisle & A. Newell and for sale at their respective printing offices, May, 1806. |
| Description | 34 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 10254. ^A575643 |
| General note | 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." |
| General note | Edition statement transposed; precedes "By an inhabitant of Boston" on title page. |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 10254 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 10254). |