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 - Newell, Andrew (Published by D. Carlisle & A. Newell and for sale at their respective printing offices, 1806)
Edition statement transposed; precedes "By an inhabitant of Boston" on title page. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 10254. - 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
Keywords: Solar eclipses -- 1806