Meteorites, or Celestial Stones
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones
IT IS somewhat difficult to obtain trustworthy accounts regarding the occurrence of meteorites in medieval and ancient times, as there was…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Temple
It was a conical mass bearing a rude resemblance to a human head, and was said to have fallen near Pessinus. It was placed in the Temple of…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: China
While there is admittedly but scant evidence of the existence of a Stone Age in China, and still less to indicate that Chinese civilization…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Aegospotami
In 405 B.C., Lysander won his great victory over the Althenian fleet at Aegospotami in Thrace, and Plutarch writes, in his life of…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Diana
The site of the city of Seleucia is said to have been determined by the fallof an aerolite, and this stone is figured on some of the coins…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Black
There seems to be fairly strong reasons for the belief that the Black Stone of the Kaaba at Mecca is an aerolite. If the conjecture be…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Mohammedan
This description seems to support the conjecture that the stone is a meteorite. The injuries it has sustained are attributed to various…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Stone
Mohammedan tradition teaches that the Black Stone was sent from heaven and was once pure and brilliant; it only grew black because of the…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Damascus
The forging of swords from meteoric iron was, in the opinion of the Orientalist Hammer-Purgstall, the origin of the characteristic surface…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Brezina
The Viennese collection of meteorites is the finest in the world, and this is largely due to the zeal and intelligence of the late Dr…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: French
The influence exerted by popular beliefs, even upon the learned, is well illustrated by the opinion given by some of the leading French…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Pallas
Chladni reports in a pamphlet published in 1794 that the mass of meteoric iron discovered by Dr. Pallas in Siberia, and known as the Pallas…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Ahnighito
The two smaller ones reposed loosely upon gneissic rocks, but Ahnighito, found on a small island some six miles away, on a terrace 80 feet…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Koenig
Davison Whitfield Iron 91.65 91.46 Nickel 7.88 8.30 Cobalt .21 ? Phosphorus .09 ? 99.83 99.76 The famous Canon Diablo meteorite possesses a…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Chronicle
Many other accidents caused by meteorites or what were believed to be meteorites are recorded, the credibility of some of the statements…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Welsh
This Welsh fancy that meteors or "falling-stars" turned to a jelly when they struck the earth appears to have been quite general in Great…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Brazil
The stone implements of various forms found in the shell-heaps of Brazil are called by the natives Curiscos or "lightning-stones." The…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Roden
A curious survival of the adoration of stones is reported by the Earl of Roden in his "Progress of the Reformation in Ireland." A…
Meteorites, or Celestial Stones: Burmese
The Burmese celts or stone hatchets are frequently of jade and differ from those usually met with in Europe and India, in that they are…