August 7, 1869, marked the last total solar eclipse visible from IU’s campus. Professor Theophilus Wylie, cousin of the first IU president, Andrew Wylie, held a viewing party at the historic Wylie ...

THE SOLAR ECLIPSE.; Arrangements by Commodore Sands for Observations of the Eclipse on the 7th of August. Share full article. ... See the article in its original context from July 6, 1869, Page 3 ...

On 7 August 1869, hundreds of scientists awaited mere minutes of solar darkness along an eclipse path that stretched from Alaska to North Carolina. With a good chance of clear summer skies in the ...

The total solar eclipse of 2017 will be the first in a century to cross the continental U.S., but more than a dozen others have passed over parts of the nation since the ... 1869 (August 7): ...

August 28, 1869. 2 min read. The Solar Eclipse. ... This article was originally published with the title “ The Solar Eclipse ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 21 No. 9 (August 1869), ...

BRISTOL, Va. – When astronomers from Washington, D.C., came to Bristol 148 years ago, they were on a mission to discover a new planet. It was Aug. 7, 1869, and Bristol was perfectly situated for ...

On Aug. 21, Kentucky will be the epicenter of a rare total solar eclipse. From Bowling Green to Paducah, thousands of visitors will come to Kentucky to view this phenomenon. Nearly 150 years ago ...

On Monday 21 August, the shadow of a solar eclipse will drape itself across the US. If the weather cooperates, ... But it took until the eclipses of 1868 and 1869, ...

On Aug. 21, a total solar eclipse will traverse the contiguous United States. It’ll be the first to traverse coast to coast in nearly a century.