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Title: Annular eclipse! The agent of the New York Scientific Gazing Society has the pleasure of announcing to the citizens of Oswego, that he has a few tickets left for the accommodation of those wishing to view the great annular eclipse, which takes place this (Friday) afternoon.... Eclipse Office, May 25, 1854.
Identifier(s): text:1440; APSimg6441; Goodman Number: 118; 973 C683 No. 708
Description: Handbill advertising the sale of tickets to view an eclipse through a "solar camera." Also advertises tickets for the "invisible eclipse" to take place in November of the same year for which an auction was to be held Saturday evening previous to the "performance."
Creator: New York Scientific Gazing Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Eclipses; Stargazing
Date: 1854

Title: Astronomical exhibition. Or, amusement and science combined. Charles Pritchard, will deliver, before such of the ladies and gentlemen of this place as may be pleased to honor him with their company, a lecture on astronomy--attended with an interesting exhibition, calculated to amuse and afford instruction, on a new plan, intended to expand the mind in a knowledge of the Creator's works
Identifier(s): text:1426; APSimg6442; Goodman Number: 120; 973 C683 No. 486
Description: Pritchard claims to exhibit over 50 astronomical figures during his lecture. However, despite its title, the exhibition was also scheduled to include a "splendid collection of wild beasts" and several allegorical paintings. Page 2 contains recommendations from persons residing in the eastern United States.
Creator: Pritchard, Charles
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Public speaking
Date: [ca. 1824]

Title: The comet. Elements of the orbit of the comet, now visible. 1811.
Identifier(s): text:609; APSimg6605; Goodman Number: 112
Description: Communication submitted by this largely self-taught astronomer and mathemetician is read before the American Philosophical Society on December 6, 1811. Cf. Minutes, p. 431.
Creator: Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838
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; Eclipses; Stargazing
Date: 1811

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: 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: 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: An account of some parhelia observed at Milford and Camden, Delaware, March 14th, 1841
Identifier(s): text:1084; local: APSimg6630; local: 113
Description: Relates accounts and reproduces drawings of a parhelia by A. Jackson of Camden, Delaware, David Straughn of Milford, Delaware, and Thomas Oliver of Philadelphia. Correlates the reports of stormy weather in Pennsylvania (from meteorological records kept at the Franklin Institute) with the appearance of the astronomical phenomena. Includes two illustrated figures of the parhelia.; Item call number: Pam. v. 139, no. 6.
Creator: Chaloner, A. Denman.et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Stargazing; Sun; Storms
Date: 1841

Title: The analysis of a lecture upon the eidouranion; or astronomical lucernal, explaining the courses, distances, situations, magnitudes and motions of the heavenly bodies
Identifier(s): text:151; APSimg6439; Goodman Number: 110; 973 C683 No. 102
Description: Includes list of illustrations to be exhibited during the lecture. Manuscript note indicates that the broadside was presented to the American Philosophical Society by Thomas Stewardson, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, April 1897.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Public speaking; Stargazing
Date: n.d.

Title: This society is established for the advancement of astronomical science, by means of discussion, aided by a regular and continued series of observations, and extended correspondence. At a meeting of the members held on Tuesday, July 9, the following subjects were proposed for discussion, on the first Tuesday in each month.... 25, Bartlett's Buildings, Holburn. July 15th, 1839
Identifier(s): text:1447; APSimg6444; Goodman Number: 122; 973 C683 No. 338
Description: Signed in type by W. H. White, chairman of the society, and J. M. Cavliêr, honorary secretary.
Creator: Uranian Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Organizations
Date: 1839

Title: Approaching solar eclipse
Identifier(s): text:353; APSimg6527; Goodman Number: 111; 973 C683 No. 39
Description: Includes information regarding the extent of the eclipse in the Philadelphia area, as well as instructions on how it may be safely observed. Also includes a diagram which the represents the eclipse as it will be seen in Philadelphia.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Stargazing; Eclipses
Date: 1806

Title: As seen in a telescope that inverts [printed upside down]. Erect diagram of occulation of [Mercury] by the [Moon].
Identifier(s): text:666; APSimg6667; Goodman Number: 123
Description: Possibly an advertising card for the famed scientific instrument maker Cornelius Varley.; Located in folder: Photographs, prints, etc. of optical instrument makers and materials.
Creator: Varley, Cornelius, 1781-1873
Source: Thomas Court Scientific Instruments Collection (Mss.509.078.M582);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Astronomy; Stargazing; Telescopes
Date: 1857

Title: Circular. American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, 6th March, 1849.
Identifier(s): text:591; APSimg6604; Goodman Number: 108
Description: An attempt to obtain expressions of support for Schumacher whose astronomical research and publication were endangered by the strained political relations between Denmark and the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Requests that scientific societies in the United States add their written support to that rendered by the world scientific community. Reprints such letters of support from A[lexander] von Humboldt, M. [Dominique-François-Jean] Arago, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Signed in type by Edward Everett, Benjamin Peirce, and J. Ingersoll Bowditch, members of the committee appointed to communicate the academy's position.
Creator: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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; Astronomical observatories; Organizations; Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, 1780-1850
Date: 1849

Title: An extract from a letter of the Rev. Mr. John Hellins, formerly assistant to Mr. (now Dr.) Maskelyne, the Astronomer-Royal at Greenwich Observatory, to Francis Maseres, Esq. Dated Potter's Pury, near Stoney Stratford, in Buckinghamshire, Sept. 25, 1792.
Identifier(s): text:1773; APSimg6440; Goodman Number: 117; 973 C683 No. 114
Description: Printed copy of a letter written on behalf of Dr. Maskelyne by his former assistant, John Hellins, in reply to a pamphlet authored by Mr. [Thomas] Mudge. Mudge submitted a chronometer of his own construction for a prize offered by the British Parliament for the determination of longitude at sea. During testing at the Royal Observatory the watch stopped working, leading to claims by Mudge that his device had been improperly handled by the observatory's director, Dr. [Nevil] Maskelyne. In the letter, Hellins details his observation of Maskelyne's great care in moving and winding chronometers.
Creator: Hellins, John, d. 1827
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Clocks & watches; Longitude; Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811
Date: 1792

Title: The right ascension and declination of ß bootes adapted to the beginning of the year, 1787
Identifier(s): text:790; APSimg6680; Goodman Number: 116
Description: Manuscript notation at top: "For His Excellency B. Franklin Esqr." Ellicott indicates that ß bootes "may be advantageously used in determining latitude" in the United States. Also includes notation that sector constructed by [David] Rittenhouse was used by Ellicott to make his observations.; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 46.
Creator: Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820
Source: Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Astronomy; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Astronomy; Constellations; Stargazing
Date: ca. 1787