Library Company of Philadelphia
![If you haven’t heard, today the United States is going to experience a total eclipse [of the heart] and the Library Company is celebrating the event with a mini exhibition on eclipses currently on display in our Logan Room.
We love the title of this...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/1f7c51c76bd16b0cfd37b6035f4aab75/tumblr_ouovqclAea1u23qdao1_250.gifv)
If you haven’t heard, today the United States is going to experience a total eclipse [of the heart] and the Library Company is celebrating the event with a mini exhibition on eclipses currently on display in our Logan Room.
We love the title of this book Darkness at Noon but think they could take it up a notch by calling it Ultimate Darkness at High Noon. Drama is everything when talking about a solar eclipse.
Darkness at Noon.
Boston : D. Carlisle & A. Newell, 1806.
Ben Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack forecasts two solar and two lunar eclipses in 1751. Eclipses have a lot of superstition around them, especially before the Age of Enlightenment, but maybe they meant nothing at all a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away. #maythefourthbewithyou #totaleclipseoftheheart
Poor Richard improved… . Philadelphia [Pa.]: : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall., [1750]