Solar Eclipse Resources at NBLA: Books and Archival Materials

• American Eclipse by David Baron

  Call Number: KF BAR

  ISBN: 9781631490163

  Publication Date: 2017-06-06
• Archives of the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak

  Call Number: KF ARC

  ISBN: 9780375421709

  Publication Date: 2004-11-23
• Einstein's Jury by Jeffrey Crelinsten

  Call Number: C3:5 CRE

  ISBN: 9780691123103

  Publication Date: 2006-06-19

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• Proving Einstein Right by S. James Gates; Cathie Pelletier

  Call Number: H8:20 GAT

  ISBN: 9781541762251

  Publication Date: 2019-09-24
• No Shadow of a Doubt by Daniel Kennefick

  Call Number: H8:20 KEN

  ISBN: 9780691183862

  Publication Date: 2019-04-30

• Astronomy by Observation : an elementary text-book for high-schools and academies by Eliza A. Brown

  Call Number: (Z) N8 BOW

  Publication Date: 1890

  Includes chapters on the sun and eclipses.

• The total eclipse of August 7, 1869 by Alfred Marshall Mayer

  Call Number: (Z) N8 MAY:A vol. 2

  Publication Date: 1836-1897

  From the "Collected Reprints from the Journal of the Franklin Institution and the American Journal of Sciences and Arts"
• Essays on astronomy: a series of papers on planets and meteors, the sun and sun-surrounding space, stars and star cloudlets; and a dissertation on the approaching transits of Venus. Preceded by a sketch of the life and works of Sir John Herschel. by Richard A. Proctor

  Call Number: (Z) N8 PRO:A

  Publication Date: 1872

• Solar eclipses and the ionosphere. A symposium held under the auspices of the International Council of Scientific Unions, Mixed Commission on the Ionosphere, in London in August 1955 by W.J.G. Beynon and G.M. Brown, editors

  Call Number: N2 BEY

  Publication Date: 1956

  Journal of atmospheric and terrestrial physics. Special supplement, v. 6
• Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition by Galileo Galilei; Stillman Drake (Translator); Albert Einstein (Foreword by)

  Call Number: WE-20182444

  ISBN: 9780520004504

  Publication Date: 1953
• Spectroscopic observations of the sun. No. II by Norman Lockyer, communicated by Dr. Sharpey...

  Call Number: WE-20182742

  Publication Date: 1869

• Home movie of William F. Meggers of solar eclipse expedition to Lund, Sweden June 1954

  Call Number: AV 2017-2578; AR-614; AV V-1998 (15-24)

  Publication Date: 1954

  Home movie from physicist and solar spectroscopist William F. Meggers of his trip to see a solar eclipse in Lund, Sweden in June 1954 (Reel 9: 03:17-05:33). Forms part of the William F. Meggers home movies [motion picture] collection, 1927-1959.

• C. G. Abbot intellectual autobiography, 1956, 1962. by Charles Greeley Abbot

  Call Number: MB 2014-1259; 559

  Publication Date: 1956

  Unpublished autobiography and biographical sketches of astronomer Charles Abbot which details his 67 years at the Smithsonian Institution, including his association with Samuel P. Langley and work on solar eclipse expeditions.
• Notes for an intellectual autobiography, 1962. by Harold D. Babcock

  Call Number: MB 2014-1273; 18

  Publication Date: 1962

  The autobiography of astronomer Harold D. Babcock which includes discussion of his work on solar and spectral photography, solar magnetism, and solar eclipses.
• Selected papers [microform], 1849-1908 by Charles A. Young

  Call Number: MI87

  Publication Date: 1849-1908

  Microfilm copy of selected correspondence and materials from the papers of Charles A. Young which are held at Dartmouth College. Topics include solar spectroscopy, solar eclipses, solar rotational velocity, and spectroscopic application to planetary observation.

• Your Guide to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse by Michael Bakich

  Call Number: C3:1 BAK

  ISBN: 9783319276304

  Publication Date: 2016-06-13
• Totality: the Great American Eclipses of 2017 And 2024 by Mark Littmann; Fred Espenak

  Call Number: C3:1 LIT

  ISBN: 9780198795698

  Publication Date: 2017-05-01
• The Cambridge Eclipse Photography Guide by Jay M. Pasachoff; Michael A. Covington

  Call Number: RA4:3 PAS

  ISBN: 9780521456517

  Publication Date: 1993-11-18
• Eclipses of the Sun, 5th Edition by Samuel A. Mitchell

  Call Number: KF MIT

  Publication Date: 1969
• Eclipses of the Sun, 4th Edition by Samuel A. Mitchell

  Call Number: KF MIT

  Publication Date: 1935

• When the Sun Goes Dark by Andrew Fraknoi; Dennis Schatz

  Call Number: N8 FRA

  ISBN: 9781681400112

  Publication Date: 2017-05-01
• Eclipse 2017 by Mark Littmann

  Call Number: C3:1 LIT

  ISBN: 9781939909428

  Publication Date: 2017-04-01

• The story of eclipses simply told for general readers, with especial reference to the total eclipse of the sun of May 28, 1900 by George F. Chambers

  Call Number: HathiTrust Digital Library (NYPL)

  Publication Date: 1900

  A general guide to the history of eclipses with a focus on viewing the May 28, 1900 eclipse.
• Total Eclipses of the Sun, New and Revised Edition with introduction by David P. Todd by Mabel Loomis Todd

  Call Number: HathiTrust Digital Library (UC)

  Publication Date: 1900

  Introductory astronomy textbook on eclipses by science writer Mabel Loomis Todd and her husband astronomer David Todd, with a special focus on the May 28, 1900 Total Solar Eclipse.