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I N D E X

Abolition, 6–7, 40–41, 91–95, 118–119,

Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac

199.
See also
Slavery

Newton’s Principles
(Ferguson),

Account of the late Aeronautical

Atheneum,
225

Weilburg, accomplished by Robert

An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton

Holland, Esq., Monck Mason,

Chess Player of Mr. De Kempelen,

Esq., and Charles Green, Aeronaut

with an Easy Method of Imitating

(Mason), 241

the Movements of that Celebrated

Ainsworth, William Harrison,

Figure
(Willis), 248

239–240

Atterly, Joseph.
See
George Tucker

Albany Museum, 252–253

Attractions, NYC, 7–10, 127–128

Alexanders Weekly Messenger,
246

Attree, William, 42, 71, 77–78, 79, 204

Alger, Horatio, 23

Atwood, Elizabeth, 116

Allan, John, 149, 150, 151–152, 153,

Aunt Nelly humbug, 259–261

Autography, 168–169

American AntiSlavery Society, 40,

Autography
series (Edgar Allan Poe),

91–92

American Institute of the City of New

Automaton chess player.
See
the Turk

York annual fair, 252

Autopsy, 255–256

American Museum, 39–40.
See also

Avery, Ephraim K., 29, 68–69, 219

Barnum’s American Museum;

Scudder’s American Museum

Bailey, James A., 121–122

Antonio, Signor, 253

Balloon Hoax, 237–238, 238–242,

Arago, François, 229–230, 288, 289

242–245, 246

Astronomical Discourses. See
A Series of

“Balloon Hoax” (Edgar Allan Poe), 154

Discourses on the Christian

Barnum, Caroline, 109

Revelation Viewed in Connection

Barnum, Charity Hallett, 104, 109, 111,

with the Modern Astronomy

117–118

Astronomical Society of London, 141

Barnum, Philo, 100, 101–102, 104, 254

Astronomy, 133, 141–142, 166

Barnum, Phineas Taylor, 9–10, 11, 12,

and lunar inhabitants, 185–188

30–31, 40, 68, 96, 113 (photo),

and pluralism, 188–190

and religion, 191–192, 196–197,

276–277

and abolition, 118–119

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