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• The calculation of solar eclipses without parallaxes : With a specimen of the same in the total eclipse of the sun, May 11. 1724. Now first made Publick. To which is added, A Proposal how, with the Latitude given, the Geographical Longitude of all the Parts of the Earth may be settled by the bare Knowledge of the Duration of Solar Eclipses, and especially of Total Darkness. With An Account of some late Observations made with Dipping Needles, in order to discover the Longitude and Latitude at Sea. By Will. Whiston, M. A. Sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge
  by: Whiston, William
  Published: (1724)
• The history of eclipses : which have happen'd from the birth of our Saviour down to this present time; with the dreadful Effects attending them in the various Revolutions of Empires, Kingdoms, and Commonwealths; Destruction of Towns and Cities by Earthquakes; the Death of Emperors, Kings and Potentates, Famine, Pestilence, and other sad Calamities, which have afflicted most Parts of the World. Occasionally written on the phænomenon, or great eclipse which was visible in London, and other Parts of Great-Britain, on Friday the 22d of April, 1715, shewing what the Effects thereof will be in several Countries in Europe. By J. Parker, late of Trinity-College, Cambridge
  by: Parker, J.
  Published: (1715)
• The method of calculating an eclipse geometrically : with an example of the great eclipse of the sun, which will happen on April the 1st, between nine and ten in the Morning, 1764. The whole Process being fully laid down, and plainly demonstrated by a Copper-Plate of the whole Operation. By D. Fenning, Author of the Royal English Dictionary, Young Man's Book of Knowledge, Treatise on the Use of the Globes, Arithmetic, and the Ready Reckoner, &c. and John Probert, Master of the Academy, Cox's-Square, Spital-Fields
  by: Fenning, Daniel
  Published: (1764)
• The black-Day, or, a prospect of doomsday. Exemplified in the great and terrible eclipse, which will happen on Friday the 22d of April, 1715. The like whereof has not been visible in this Kingdom for above Five Hundred Years. And explaining the Schemes thereof, done according to most exact Calculation by Mr. Halley, Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford, and Mr. Whiston, late Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge, from Mr. Street's celebrated Caroline Tables, and the Corrected ones of that famous Astronomer Mr. Flamsteed. With Curious Observations on the Effects of this total Eclipse, through many Parts of Europe
  Published: (1715)
• A description of the passage of the shadow of the moon over England : as it was observed in the late total eclipse of the sun April 22d. 1715 manè
  by: Halley, Edmond
  Published: (1715)