While exploring the fictionalized account of the early military career of
Jacob Frost, I mentioned his younger brother,
Dr. Joshua Frost.
Dr. Frost graduated from
Harvard College in 1793. The university still holds his
drawing of the lunar eclipse that would
occur on 14 Feb 1794. Massachusetts was on the edge of the viewing area while states outside of New England got no sight of this eclipse.
Thus, even though
David Rittenhouse was
making astronomical observations in Philadelphia that year, he had nothing to observe.
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