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Title: Monthly meteorological table for the year 1820, embracing the whole extent of the United States of America and their territories. ...Monthly meteorological table for the year 1821, embracing the whole extent of the United States of America and their territories. ...Comparative table of meteorological observations, taken at several of the military posts in the United States, for the year 1821
Identifier(s): text:1788; APSimg6539; Goodman Number: 172; 973 C683 No. 310
Description: Monthly meteorological tables for the United States during the years 1820 and 1821.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology
Date: 1821

Title: Detail de la grande éclipse de soleil qui doit arriver le 26 Octobre de cette présente année 1753. Calculée pour la Ville de Bordeaux suivant les nouvelles observations de Messieurs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences
Identifier(s): text:339; APSimg6528; Goodman Number: 115; 973 C683 No. 302
Description: Details of the grand solar eclipse of October 26, 1753. Includes calculations as to what times various portions of the sun will be blocked (measured in "doigts") during the eclipse and instructions for observing it without eye damage. Also includes an illustration of the eclipse.
Creator: Tamizey de Larroque, Philippe, 1828-1898
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Eclipses; Stargazing; Sun
Date: 1753

Title: Public bequests. The following extracts from the will and codicils of the late Isaiah Thomas, L.L.D., of Worcester, (Mass.) shew the amount bequeathed by him for public purposes
Identifier(s): text:374; APSimg6520; Goodman Number: 59; 973 C683 No. 316
Description: Lists the following science-related organizations to which this printer and historian of printing bequeathed his estate at his death: American Antiquarian Society, Massachusetts General Hospital, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Historical Society in the Commonwealth, New-York Historical Society, Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, Worcester Agricultural Society, Essex Historical Society. The bulk of Thomas' estate was left to American Antiquarian Society which he founded in 1812.
Creator: Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Thomas, Isaiah (1794-1831); Wills; American Antiquarian Society; American Philosophical Society
Date: 1831

Title: Union encyclopédique pour la propagation des connaissances utiles, par la publication de l'Encylcopédie portative
Identifier(s): text:153; APSimg6425; Goodman Number: 90; 973 C683 No. 398
Description: Manuscript addition indicates that this prospectus and subscription form was sent "sous les auspices de M. Warden," undoubtedly David Bailie Warden (1772-1845), an American citizen who lived in France for over 40 years, serving first as a member of the staff of the America delegation there and when he left that post in 1814, as an unofficial liaison between the French scientific community and American scientists traveling abroad.
Creator: Bailly, C. (Charles), 1800-1862
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Encyclopedias & dictionaries; Science
Date: 1830

Title: Verzeichniss der optischen Werkzeuge welche in dem optischen Institute zu Benedictbeurn[,] Utzschneider et Fraunhofer für nachstehende Preise verfertigt werden
Identifier(s): text:322; APSimg6554; Goodman Number: 311; 973 C683 No. 362
Description: Catalog issued by the optical instrument makers Joseph Utzschneider and Joseph Fraunhofer. Signed in type by J[oseph] Utzschneider.
Creator: Utzschneider, Joseph von, 1763-1840 Fraunhofer, Joseph von, 1787-1826; Utzschneider, Joseph von, 1763-1840 Fraunhofer, Joseph von, 1787-1826
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Optical devices; Scientific apparatus and instruments--Catalogs
Date: 1816

Title: ...The greatest number that can be expressed by three figures would...require a line many miles in length.... This greatest number is expressed by the algebraical notation thus, 9(99), or a number derived from a series of multiplications by 9, in which there are three hundred and eighty-seven million, four hundred and twenty thousand, four hundred and eighty-nine rows. Great as this number is, such improvements have been made in arithmetic within the few last centuries, that some of the first and last figures may be discovered.... December 11, 1831.
Identifier(s): text:1767; APSimg6463; Goodman Number: 158; 973 C683 No. 379
Description: Four-page excerpt from a text on mathematics.
Creator: W. F.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Mathematics
Date: 1831

Title: Description of the atmospheric recorder, or self-registering apparatus for the various changes of the barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, electrometer, pluviometer, and evaporator, and of the force and direction of the wind. Arranged and manufactured by G. Dollond, optician to Her Majesty
Identifier(s): text:1750; APSimg6553; Goodman Number: 297; 973 C683 No. 728
Description: Includes description of how data is recorded by specially weighted pencils on an automatically moving roller. Also includes illustration of the atmospheric recorder and "representation of one day's work."; See annotation to Goodman #298 for information on the Dollond business.
Creator: Dollond, George, 1774-1852
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Meteorological instruments; Meteorology
Date: n.d.

Title: Members
Identifier(s): text:83; APSimg6394; Goodman Number: 24; 973 C683 No. 660
Description: Member list of club. Lists the following as members of the club: C. S. Boker, J. Darrach, Franklin B. Gowen, Isaac Hinckley, W[illia]m Hunt, J. H. Hutchinson, J. L. Le Conte, J. Leidy, S. Weir Mitchell, J. Cheston Morris, J. H. Packard, R. A. F. Penrose, Aubrey H. Smith, Cha[rle]s E. Smith, Caspar Wister, Walter F. Atlee, W. A. Hammond, and Samuel Powell.
Creator: Biological Club
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations
Date: n.d.

Title: Monumental grandeur of the Mississippi valley! Now exhibiting for a short time only, _____ with scientific lectures on American Aerchiology [sic]. ...This gorgeous panorama, with all the aboriginal monuments of a large extent of country once roamed by the red man, was painted by the eminent artist I. J. Egan
Identifier(s): text:1777; APSimg6546; Goodman Number: 259; 973 C683 No. 437
Description: Less than one year after Broadside #61 was issued (Goodman #258), Dickeson had collaborated with the artist J. J. (sometimes given as I. J.) Egan to produce a panorama eight feet high and 320 feet long based on his sketches. That panorama, one of the few surviving examples of this once popular form of amusement and instruction, is now kept by the City Art Museum of St. Louis.
Creator: Dickeson, Montroville Wilson
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities; Archaeology; Indians of North America; Public speaking; Panoramic views
Date: [ca. 1851]

Title: Phrenological chart, or else: a physiognomico-craniological delineation of the person of M ______.
Identifier(s): text:373; APSimg6745; Goodman Number: 286; 973 C683 No. 325
Description: Extra oversized phrenological chart, with an explanation of the physiognomico-craniological system. Includes illustrations: four phrenological bust outlines.; Small fragment missing from the right center of broadside.
Creator: Zender, J. D. L. (Joachim Denis Laurent), b. 1805
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Phrenology; Phrenology; Pseudo science
Date: 1839

Title: Collections de roches et de petrifications par livraisons. Comptoir de Minéraux à Heidelberg. En decembre 1826 nous instruisimes le public de notre project de fourner par livraisons des collections de roches et de petrifications, à un prix moderé. ...nous nous sommes déterminé à annoncer une second édition des collections de roches et de pétrifications par livraisons
Identifier(s): text:1477; APSimg6460; Goodman Number: 153; 973 C683 No. 393
Description: An attempt by an enterprising mineral dealer from Heidelberg to sell entire rock collections in parts.
Creator: Heidelberger Mineralien-Comptoir
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Minerals; Selling
Date: [1832]

Title: Catalogue d'abres d'arbustes et de plantes qui croissent en Amérique, & produisent des graines en maturité dans le Jardin de John Bartram, près de Philadephie; qui se vendent en plantes ou en graines, le tout à juste pris
Identifier(s): text:363; APSimg6543; Goodman Number: 190; 973 C683 No. 233
Description: French language version of broadside #245. The first sales catalogue of American plants issued in this country. After John Bartram, Sr.'s death in 1777, the family homestead and nursery business in Kingsessing, just outside of Philadelphia, passed on to the younger John Bartram who issued catalogues like this one for the next quarter of a century.; Possibly Franklin imprint, see also Livingston, Benjamin Franklin and his Press at Passy, New York (1914):192.
Creator: Bartram, John, 1743-1812
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Plants; Sales catalogs; Botany; Horticulture
Date: [1783]

Title: University of Pennsylvania, (Faculty of arts.) October 25th, 1867. A very important change having been made in the system of instruction in the university...a circular was issued, on the 9th of September, by the faculty, containing a detailed statement of the new plan. ...Since the opening of the term, several slight...modifications having been adopted, it is thought best to issue...a full explanation of the new system
Identifier(s): text:1393; APSimg6423; Goodman Number: 87; 973 C683 No. 205
Description: Gives course of studies for the bachelor of arts degree including the following science-related subjects: mathematics, chemistry, physics, physical astronomy, and geography. Signed in type by Francis A. Parkman, secretary of the board of trustees.
Creator: University of Pennsylvania
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Universities & colleges; Science
Date: 1867

Title: Observations météorologiques, faites à Flacq, Ile Maurice, par M. Julien Desjardins, pendant l'année 1838
Identifier(s): text:325; APSimg6743; Goodman Number: 167; 973 C683 No. 266
Description: Meteorological observations from this native of Mauritius who studied engineering in France and returned to the island of his birth to help found the Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice in 1829.; Extra oversized.
Creator: Desjardins, Julien François, 1799-1840
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Weather
Date: [1839]

Title: Direction générale du Bulletin universel des sciences et de l'industrie, Établie à Paris, rue de l'Abbaye, no. 3. ...Paris, ce 1er. janvier 1824
Identifier(s): text:134; APSimg6432; Goodman Number: 94; 973 C683 No. 343
Description: Prospectus for periodical attempting to establish a regular international communication between "savans, l'industrie, et la librairie de diverses contrées civilisées."; A different version of Goodman #93.
Creator: Férussac, André-Etienne-Just-Pascal-Joseph-François d'Audebard, baron de, 1786-1836
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Periodicals; Science
Date: 1824

Title: Royal Birth. On Thursday, May 22, 1817, the largest lioness in the kingdom, produced two beautiful whelps, male and female (of which one is now living) at the Royal Menagerie, Exeter 'Change, Strand, London, which has recently been substantially improved, by E. Cross, successor to the late S. Polito
Identifier(s): text:1760; APSimg6525; Goodman Number: 76; 973 C683 No. 743
Description: In 1817, the same year this broadside was issued, the menagerie at Exeter Change again changed hands when Edward Cross, an experienced traveling showman and animal dealer, bought the collection. Under Cross the menagerie experienced a phenomenal growth in both its collections and its popularity.
Creator: Royal Menagerie, London
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Natural history; Zoos
Date: ca. 1817

Title: Cherokee translations
Identifier(s): text:375; APSimg6549; Goodman Number: 270-273; 973 C683 No. 474
Description: Includes four Cherokee translations of: the 8th Commandment, the 4th Commandment, the 10 Commandments, and the Prodigal Son.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Cherokee Indians--Language; Ten commandments; Biblical events
Date: n.d.

Title: Report of the Boston committee, appointed by the meeting of merchants and others, on the subject of procuring a telescope of the first class, for astronomical observations, &c.
Identifier(s): text:131; APSimg6443; Goodman Number: 121; 973 C683 No. 449
Description: Gives succinct view of the importance of telescopes in science and commerce in an effort to garner support for the purchase of a high quality telescope in Boston. Especially stresses the role of astronomical observation in navigation. Signed in type by John Pickering, Francis C. Gray, Jona[than] Phillips, W[illia]m Appleton, and Israel Lombard, members of the committee.
Creator: Boston Committee
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Longitude; Telescopes
Date: 1843

Title: Catalogue of books, French and English, late the property of A. J. Dallas, Esquire, dec'd. ...April 11, 1817
Identifier(s): text:140; APSimg6435; Goodman Number: 99; 973 C683 No. 336
Description: Books available for auction. Includes several science-related publications.; Contains numerical annotations.
Creator: Passmore & Birckhead
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Auction catalogs; Books
Date: 1817

Title: Salem, Mass., Feby. 28, 1866. Your address has been received for publication in the Naturalists' Directory and will appear in the second part, now in press. To assist in securing accuracy your attention is called to the enclosed slip relating to yourself, and you will confer a favor on the editor of the "Directory" by correcting any errors and returning it to him as soon as possible.
Identifier(s): text:1386; APSimg6431; Goodman Number: 92; 973 C683 No. 607
Description: Signed in type by F[rederic] W[ard] Putnam, superintendent of the museum of the Essex Institute and editor of parts I and II of the Naturalists' Directory published by the institute and appended to its Proceedings in 1865-66. After a hiatus of over 11 years, the Naturalists' Directory resumed publication in 1877 under the editorship of Samuel E. Cassino and has been irregularly published up to the present.
Creator: Essex Institute
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: General Publications; Broadside Subdivision: ; Natural history; Organizations
Date: 1866