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Title: Tableau des principales expériences innovées et exécutées par M. Donato sur les spectateurs de ses séances
Identifier(s): text:357; APSimg6557; Goodman Number: 337; 973 C683 No. 597
Description: Profusely illustrated border of numerous subjects that Donato has placed in hypnotic states.; Small section torn from center of broadside, rendering a couple of words illegible.
Creator: Donato
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision: ; Pseudo science; Hypnotism; Seances
Date: n.d.

Title: Extraordinary phenomenon in the sun, seen off Boston, in America, by Captain Hayes, and all the officers and seamen of His Majesty's Ship Majestic, now lying in Plymouth Harbour
Identifier(s): text:324; APSimg6558; Goodman Number: 338; 973 C683 No. 733
Description: Attempts prophetic explanation based on observation of the sun. Note on bottom indicates that this broadside sold for three pence. Includes an illustration: the figure of a man holding a flag and standing within the sun.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision: ; Pseudo science; Prophecy; Sun
Date: [ca. 1815]

Title: Ladies and gentlemen of London are most respectfully informed that Master Geo. Bidder, aged twelve years and a half...will exhibit his astounding powers to any parties
Identifier(s): text:975; APSimg6695; Goodman Number: 335
Description: Handbill advertising the services of Master George Bidder and his "mental powers of calculation."; See also Goodman #334.
Creator: Bidder, George Parker, 1806-1878
Source: Sir James Paget Letters (Mss.B.P212);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision: ; Pseudo science; Mathematics; Entertainment
Date: [ca. 1819]

Title: The ladies and gentlemen of Yarmouth are most respectfully informed, that Master Bidder, the celebrated mental calculator, will exhibit his surprising powers, at the Concert-Room, on Friday and Saturday next
Identifier(s): text:974; APSimg6694; Goodman Number: 334
Description: Broadside advertising the appearance of the "celebrated mental calculator" George Bidders. Autographed inscription by Bidder: "Samuel Paget, Esqr., August 7, 1819. George Bidder."; See also Goodman #335.
Creator: Bidder, George Parker, 1806-1878
Source: Sir James Paget Letters (Mss.B.P212);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision: ; Pseudo science; Mathematics; Entertainment
Date: [ca. 1819]

Title: The Chinese sensitive leaf. This is an account of the remarkably sympathetic power of the Chinese sensitive leaf, invented by one of the most celebrated operators, by the name of Jan Pertista Chaseretto, from China. ...If you wish to know the temper of a person, you lay this leaf in the palm of his left hand, and you will be delighted to see it move of itself
Identifier(s): text:1787; APSimg6513; Goodman Number: 336; 973 C683 No. 589
Description: This is an account of the remarkably sympathetic power of the Chinese sensitive leaf, invented by one of the most celebrated operators, by the name of Jan Pertista Chaseretto, from China.; Reverse of broadside includes French translation of the text.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision: ; Talismans; Pseudo science; Leaves
Date: n.d.

Title: Animal magnetism, clairvoyance, sympathy, phreno-magnetism, &c. &c. Dr. Webster takes pleasure in announcing to the citizens of _____ and vicinity, that he will deliver a course of lectures, illustrated by experiments, on the important, sublime and mysterious subject of Mesmerism
Identifier(s): text:1748; APSimg6560; Goodman Number: 341; 973 C683 No. 739
Description: Advertisement for a demonstration of Dr. Webster's claims, together with testimonials on his behalf.
Creator: Webster, J. Palmer
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision: ; Pseudo science; Hypnotism; Mesmerism
Date: ca. 1845

Title: The dreadful earthquake and the fatal spotted fever. A funeral sermon and a funeral Psalm, on the death of about ten or fifteen thousand of people killed by an earthquake on the twenty-sixth of March 1812, in South America: and on the death of an hundred and fifty killed in New-Hampshire it is expected in the same year, by the Spotted Fever. Written by Jonathan Plummer, a latter-day prophet, lay-bishop, travelling preacher, physician, poet and trader
Identifier(s): text:1213; local: APSimg6704; local: 340
Description: Among his insights in this document, Jonathan Plummer claims that a "vile book" written by "the infamous drunkard" Thomas Paine insulted God and was therefore responsible for outbreaks of fever in Philadelphia and an earthquake in South America.; Paine 73 P73d. Oversized box 2.
Creator: Plummer, Jonathan, 1761-1819et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision:; Pseudo science; Earthquakes; Communicable diseases; Prophecy; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
Date: ca. 1812

Title: Behold here the first man who hath squared the circles of 140000 solar and St. John's 144000 lunar years. One is a square to that whose sextant 25920 answers to the modern Hindus' 24000, the sixth of 360 x 400
Identifier(s): text:305; APSimg6559; Goodman Number: 339; 973 C683 No. 313
Description: Broadside from itinerant mystic-numerologist among whose claims was that "Halley's comet will then appear to announce that 1836 is the day of judgment." Includes illustrations of the front and side views of Page.
Creator: Page, Edward Postlethwayt, 1782-1857
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision: ; End of the world; Numerals; Page, Edward Postlethwayt, 1782-1857; Pseudo science
Date: [1834]

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: 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: Phrenological character of _____ by Mr [C. H. Canfield] practical phrenologist
Identifier(s): text:296; APSimg6552; Goodman Number: 284; 973 C683 No. 596
Description: Phrenological chart, with numerical notations by C. H. Canfield.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Phrenology; Phrenology; Pseudo science
Date: n.d.

Title: [Phrenological chart fragment]
Identifier(s): text:329; APSimg6551; Goodman Number: 282; 973 C683 No. 257
Description: Fragment of a phrenological chart, containing manuscript notes on the reverse, as well as the inscription: "Mr. Fowler's decision on my phrenological traits in 1836. H. R. S."; The chart is torn along the righthand side, rendering some words illegible.
Creator: Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Phrenology; Phrenology; Pseudo science
Date: [ca. 1835-1836]