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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: Meteorological observations. 1789.
Identifier(s): text:683; APSimg6724; Goodman Number: 171
Description: Large meteorological chart which Legaux used to make his twice daily meteorological observations. Includes space for "Remarks on[:] vines and grapes, grain and trees, birds and insects, and births and deaths." Filled in for February 1789.; Oversized. See also Goodman #169-170.
Creator: Legaux, Peter, 1748-1827
Source: Peter Legaux Meteorological Notebook (Mss.551.5.L52);
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Weather
Date: 1789

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: ...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: Halley's Comet as seen on the 22nd and 24th of October, 1835, in the 25 feet achromatic telescope of E. J. Cooper, Esqr. M.D.
Identifier(s): text:601; APSimg6606; Goodman Number: 114
Description: Inscription indicates that this document was presented to the American Philosophical Society by William Vaughan, September 16, 1835. Includes illustration of Halley's Comet.
Creator: Cooper, Edward Joshua, 1798-1863
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Comets; Stargazing
Date: ca. 1835

Title: Nouvelle analyse de la lumière du spectre solaire. Par MM. [Sir David] Brewster et [Francesco] Zantedeschi...Articolo estratto dal Giornale: La Lumière. Revue de la Photographie. Parigi 25 Luglio 1857
Identifier(s): text:488; APSimg6637; Goodman Number: 179
Description: New analysis of the light of the solar spectrum by [Sir David] Brewster and Francesco Zantedeschi. Article extracted from the journal La Lumière, Review of Photography; Item call number: 500 Pam. v. 6, no. 35
Creator: Brewster, David, Sir, 1781-1868 Zantedeschi, Francesco, 1797-1873; Brewster, David, Sir, 1781-1868 Zantedeschi, Francesco, 1797-1873
Source: Science Pamphlet Collection (500 Pam. v. 6);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Light; Sun; Colors
Date: 1857

Title: La camera lucida applicata alla fotografia dei prototipi del mondo esteriore ossia delle immagini impresse sulla retina dell'occhio
Identifier(s): text:1099; local: APSimg6639; local: 186
Description: Reproduces letter from Francesco Carlini, Italian astronomer and mathematician, in which Carlini speaks of photographing the eyes of a murderer in order to see the images of his victims impressed on his retina. Zantedeschi was an Italian physicist responsible for over three hundred scientific articles--chiefly on electricity, light, and magnetism.; Item call number: Pam. v. 365, no. 7.
Creator: Zantedeschi, Francesco, 1797-1873et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Photography; Homicides; Pseudo science
Date: 1863

Title: Paris, ce _____. -----[,] Je suis devenu seul propriétaire de la manufacture de produits chimiques, située enceinte de l'Abbaye St.-Germain, rue du Colombieu, no. 23, près de mon laboratoire d'instruction
Identifier(s): text:819; APSimg6696; Goodman Number: 135
Description: Circular letter sent from Vaquelin to [Giovanni Fabbroni], May 18, 1807.
Creator: Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas, 1763-1829
Source: Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni Papers (Mss.B.F113);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Chemicals; Scientific apparatus
Date: 1807

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: 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: 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: (From the [Philadelphia] Inquirer.) Letter from Dr. Hare. In reply to an inquiry respecting the influence of electricity in table turning. Philadelphia, July 27, 1853
Identifier(s): text:255; APSimg6452; Goodman Number: 139; 973 C683 No. 347
Description: In this broadside the chemist Hare renders the opinion that "it is utterly impossible for six or eight, or any number of persons, seated around a table, to produce an electrical current." Upon his retirement as professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1847, Hare devoted a good deal of time to the investigatin of spiritualism, and much to the chagrin of the Philadelphia scientific establishment published Experimental investigation of the spirit manifestations, demonstrating the existence of spirts and their communication with mortals (1855).
Creator: Hare, Robert, 1781-1858
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Electricity; Electricity; Spiritualism
Date: 1853

Title: A synopsis of the chemical characters adapted to the new nomenclature by Messrs. Hassenfratz and Adet, systematically arranged by W. Jackson, practical chemist
Identifier(s): text:310; APSimg6530; Goodman Number: 131; 973 C683 No. 353
Description: Antoine Lavoisier's anti-phlogiston theory required a new chemical nomenclature to facilitate its dissemination and further development. He therefore collaborated with several French chemists to produce Méthode de nomenclature chimique (1787), a work which had appended to it two papers by Jean-Henri Hassenfratz and Pierre-Auguste Adet giving symbols for the new chemistry. William Jackson assembled the charts of symbols from the English translation of Méthode by John St. John and published the above broadside, dedicated to John C. Lettsom, a London physician. Lettsom gave this copy to the American Philosophical Society in 1800. Ill.: table of chemical characters.; For the explanation which accompanied this broadside, see Goodman #132.
Creator: Jackson, William
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Symbols
Date: 1799

Title: Thermometrical table, on the scales of Fahrenheit, Centigrade and Reaumur comprising the most remarkable phenomena chemical and physiological connected with temperature, by Alfred S. Taylor, lecturer on chemistry in Guy's Hospital
Identifier(s): text:332; APSimg6542; Goodman Number: 184; 973 C683 No. 529
Description: Elaborate table arranged around the image of a thermometer, noting the temperatures at which various elements and substances boil, melt, solidify, freeze, etc. Also contains mean temperatures of numerous places across the globe.; In addition to his posts as lecturer of chemistry and medical jurisprudence at Guy's Hospital, Taylor was also involved in the early investigation into the chemical processes of photography.
Creator: Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 1806-1880
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Chemistry; Meteorology; Temperature
Date: 1845

Title: College of New Jersey. Examination in chemistry. (Required.) Saturday, Dec. 19, 1885
Identifier(s): text:847; APSimg6712; Goodman Number: 134
Description: Nine questions ranging from "Which of all elements studied is most abundant?" to "What do chemists mean by saying carbon is a tetrad?" from Schank who began instruction of chemistry at the College of New Jersey in 1854, was promoted to the rank of professor in 1857, and became emeritus in 1892.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Schanck, John Stillwell, 1817-1898.
Source: Elisha Kent Kane Papers. Printed Material. (Mss.B.K132.p); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132.p-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Examinations; Universities & colleges
Date: 1885

Title: Tables of natural sines and natural tangents, for the use of field parties of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 1875.
Identifier(s): text:238; APSimg6464; Goodman Number: 161; 973 C683 No. 669
Description: Tables of natural sines and natural tangents, for the use of field parties of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 1875. [Page 4:] Table of natural tangents for each 30'', from 0o to 10o, prepared...by Otis H. Kendall, instructor in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania.
Creator: Kendall, Otis H.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Mathematics; Surveying
Date: [1875]

Title: Lecture[.] Perley Ainsworth, artist, will deliver a lecture at _____ on _____ ev'g, _____ 185_[.] He will illustrate his subjects with many beautiful experiments, explaining the laws of chemical affinity, combustion, galvanism, electricity, gas making and ballooning!
Identifier(s): text:1470; APSimg6445; Goodman Number: 124; 973 C683 No. 710
Description: Ainsworth was one of many itinerant popular lecturers who traveled across the United States in the nineteenth century. He was at one time associated with a Professor Hindman under whom he may have learned his trade (see Goodman #130).
Creator: Ainsworth, Perley
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Public speaking
Date: [185_]

Title: The subscriber has taken a laboratory, in which he proposes to perform analyses of the various ores, as those of iron, lead, copper, silver, gold, &c.; of the earths, as those of lime, clay, sand, &c.; and likewise the products of art. Instruction in the methods of analysis will also be communicated
Identifier(s): text:1781; APSimg6448; Goodman Number: 127; 973 C683 No. 184
Description: In addition to the instruction in chemistry Booth offered in another broadside (See Goodman #126, or 973 C683 no. 183), in this document, issued only one week later, he also advertises the ability to perform chemical analysis of ores, earths, and "the products of art." The following are listed as references: A. D. Bache, W. H. Keating, and Henry Troth.
Creator: Booth, James Curtis, 1810-1888
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Chemistry; Minerals; Dirt
Date: 1836

Title: Philadelphia, December 1857. Sir, I beg leave to transmit to you the copy of a resolution adopted by the American Association at its last meeting, and to invite your advice and guidance in the preparation of an appropriate report to that body. I have supposed that the several topics which such a report should embrace, may fitly arrange themselves under the following heads
Identifier(s): text:1769; APSimg6461; Goodman Number: 154; 973 C683 No. 630
Description: Autographed circular letter from J[ohn] K. Kane to Prof. J[ohn] F[ries] Frazer dated December 21, 1857. Lists six general topics which the committee on the coast survey of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is expected to investigate. Also gives a list of the twenty members appointed by the association to the committee: J[ohn] K. Kane, Joseph G. Totten, Benjamin Peirce, John Torrey, Joseph Henry, J. F. Frazer, Wm. Chauvenet, F. A. P. Barnard, John Le Conte, W. M. Gillespie, F. H. Smith, W. H. C. Bartlett, Walcott Gibbs, Stephen Alexander, Lewis R. Gibbes, Joseph Winbock, James Phillips, William Ferrel, Edward Hitchcock, and James D. Dana. Signed in type by Joseph Lovering, permanent secretary of the association.
Creator: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Mathematics and Surveying; Organizations; Surveying
Date: 1857

Title: 1838. Observations made at London for 25 successive hours commencing at 6 a.m. of the 21st September, and ending 6 a.m. on the 22nd. London Clock Time. By Robert Carr Woods, Esq. Mem. Geog. Soc., Paris, Royal Acad. Sci. Lisbon, &c. &c.
Identifier(s): text:345; APSimg6541; Goodman Number: 178; 973 C683 No. 469
Description: Meteorological observations of London for a twenty-five hour period.
Creator: Woods, Robert Carr
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Weather; Clouds
Date: [1838]